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Youth Of Color Reflection
A community to which I belong to is the community of youth of color, I have been an increasingly integral part of a coalition of students since I was a freshman in high school. I quickly found myself immersed into an organization known as Californians for Justice (CFJ), where students of color supported each other. We were a community of students that were acquiescently driven to make an impact on future generations to come. During my time in CFJ, I encompassed the idea of what it meant to be fearless, but also what it meant to a fail in today’s society. Considered a statistic to the State Board, I was only a number analyzed through standardized tests and generic probabilities about drop outs. Nonetheless, on the day we went to the California
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