Anzaldua's Speech Analysis

The only reason to say something negative or outlandish is to provoke a reaction. To instigate conflict. What someone says is not always meant to be taken with more than a grain of salt. Sometimes people just talk to talk because a constant need for attention consumes them. On another note, people are not one dimensional.
One characteristic cannot ever encompass all that a person is.
A Ted talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned about the dangers of single stories. A single story is essentially a stereotype built by limited knowledge or interpretations of something or someone. The point of her speech was to say that both people and culture are more complex than the one side people are aware of. This remains true with identities. A person
She was also a daughter, sister, friend, a member of society and much more. One cannot simply say “Oh she was was a Chicana who spoke an English, Spanish hybrid” they can but that isn’t all there was to her. A person is the the sum of their experiences and it should be obvious that there is more to her story. A single qualifier does not sum up all that a person is.
Generally speaking, everyone is entitled to think what they want and have the choice to express that belief. It may seem controversial or offensive, and it may spark conflict. Once voiced, their beliefs are open to scrutiny from others and it is up to the individual on the receiving end of the conversation to either take what is said to heart or disregard it as unimportant.
Atticus Finch had the wise revelation that a person’s inner thoughts are not dictated by someone else's opinions no matter how valid they may be to another. At the end of the day, the only person, someone has to listen to or believe in is themself. Unless a person is unconfident in their beliefs they should be able to stand by
More often than not there is more than one thing they could say that they strongly identify with. It is fine if it is only one, but if someone feels strongly about something it shouldn’t hurt when another person decides to say something bad. That’s just an opportunity to A. prove them wrong or B. change their mind.
A couple years back someone told me that I wasn’t responsible, that I didn’t possess enough abilities to be “reliable” that really shook me because without responsibility or reliability who was Tinyah? I let it get into my head that I was small, useless, insignificant. Surprise . . . surprise when the time came for me to show some responsibility little Tinyah almost burnt the house down.
I let the idea that I was a screw up psych me out so bad that I actually majorly screwed up. As the shock set in a gear switched, regardless of what had been told I was still Tinyah and it was up to me to fix what I broke. It was clear that I was responsible enough to handle things and there were people who relied on