I felt good reading This Book is Anti-Racist. I like thinking about identity and the different ways people are who they are. Even though it is a harsh world, I think it is important that people identify as they want without having people question who they are. No one should have the right to tell people what to do or how to identify and I think the book's point was to let people live freely without other peoples judgments or other people telling you who you need to be. The point in the book is to also identify what is considered normal for the dominant culture. As a light skinned Dominican man who is athletic, able-bodied, tattooed,  adopted, straight, and cisgender, I live with lots of the advantages of being viewed as "normal" but also live outside of those norms. 

I connect this to lots of what is going on in the world today with President Trump trying to define a new "normal" that just represents who he is and not have any consideration for other people. He is trying to make people stop talking about who they are and just have people hide their identities and be scared to live. 

Here is a link that talks about his efforts to try and change all civil rights laws to make it harder to address inequality.

https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/