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I believe that literature addresses the trauma of diaspora because if you are not able to talk about what you are going through with someone you are still able to write it down and it feels good because no one has to listen to you, but you will still be able to let out what you are feeling during this time. That is how literature addresses the trauma of diaspora.

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Literature addresses the trauma of diaspora by providing connections to past events in which people of color, those who have immigrated, and their experience. We are brought into this event of Beli and her gangster lover's quarrel, and her beaten wounds were inflicted by the elvises.

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Generally when we think of racism we don't imagine anywhere outside the US because it has been so beaten into us how incredibly racist the US was in days past, and possibly continues to be. But we see clear racism, and sexism, in this culture and how Beli specifically is so affected by these two things. It addresses that Beli came from racism, but will also delve into even more within the Dominican life she will lead in the US.

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Diaz's novel brings the roles of the outsider, immigrant, and hero into conversation through bringing up the trauma cause by the diaspora.

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This passage shines a light on Beli's trauma, the pain she experienced that day, the pain that would stick with her for the rest of her days, partially the pain of the beating they gave her, but mostly the pain of realising she had been betrayed yet again, by most of the things in her life, now including the gangster

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"... alone, black, fea..."

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Beli attempted to use silence to escape the "damage in total". The pain she was feeling was too much for her to bear so she retracted into herself.  Before retreating into her mind, Beli had a "fool's hope" thinking that the Gangster would save her but that was nothing but wishful thinking. Because she was put under immense pain, she went so deep within herself making a "wracked imagination".

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Throughout the story, Diaz in a way omits trauma by hardly speaking about the rape and leaving Beli with a "pagina de blanco". He lightly shows the weakness and brokenness that comes with trauma, so for the first time he identifies the trauma of diaspora as strength. Beli's anger saves her and finally gives her something rather than takes it away.

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The trauma of diaspora is addressed in literature in many ways. In this story Junot Diaz has his characters believing in "a miracle". This miracle, a belief for the characters to flourish, is ofter killed by the trauma the characters go through. Their survival depended on "coraje".

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I think that liticher is a way of getting past the drama and start that argument about it or discussion, It is the idea that in the writing we are able to start the conversation like this and keep it going and moving past the trauma. He brings the idea of heros in belli because we think of her as the hero but we see that even for the hero it never goes as planned the gangster and his wife the villains win over the immigrants and outsiders because the little guy does not win.

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Specifically when Yunior questions whether there was "time for a rape", he assumes there was, but the experience was so traumatic, Beli never confirmed, denied, or even mentioned the experience afterwards.

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obliteration

noun

the action or fact of obliterating or being obliterated; total destruction: the obliteration of vast green spaces.

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I believe that that is what it is saying we need to put aside emotions to move past this.

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If she is trying to become less human to stay alive, does that mean that humans are weak, or that we inherently need less emotion to live through trauma?

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Silence is her strength...

Silence of oblivion...
silence of death...

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Body Cast Is white just like a wedding dress... she's messed up...

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"Was there time for a rape or two? I suspect there was, but we shall never know because it's not something she talked about."

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I found it really interesting that through this the narratio references video games with damage points.

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slave - Lola sees herself as a slave as well, to a Dominican mother

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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (French: [lə kɔʁbyzje]; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Literature, in a sense, is the senile verison of trauma. Too weak, too beaten, literature can not express exploitation so it reprieves its violence by simply "pass[ing] over" the traumatic portions.  The protagonist possess a "coraje" that the novel does not the experience is not omitted from their life. Climaxing to the apex of violence, the novel evades the eruption of finity, and omits the tangible drama. The precarious build up of it never resolved just introduced into conversation.

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As Gladis had stated, the cane shows a sign of diaspara as in the past, people in that area with looks found in Beli had been enslaved and forced to get sugar cane. The pain felt by Beli from the can is showing the pain of the slaves that were formerly being beaten.

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I think Junot Diaz says that "the cane didn't want her to leave" possibly to hint at this idea of the "fuku" curse. That no matter how hard Beli tries to run away from the traumas of her past and the traumas of her family, she ends up back in the same place where her ancestors were treated as slaves. It's ironic that after all this time she ends up at the canefield being beaten "like she was a slave."

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I think Diaz chase the canefield because of its practical use and being difficult to navigate. It could represent something about their history or such, or it could be because it was the most likely.

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The canefield is a metaphor for her wracked mind with after getting left for dead, her mind was traumatized from this. Her mind was like canefield with it's being hard to find it like it's hard to find someone in a canefield.  As she wept for her baby, she was scared as "it was dark and her legs [were] trembling beneath her like smoke.

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Passage 4 emphasizes the marks that Beli's body bears. Oscar and Lola's stories are told, but Beli's story is described so vividly yet open to interpretation.

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Literature address trauma of diaspora

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He is stuck in a false reality- his fantasies.

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Beli had been waiting to be "saved by the Gangster" but, unlike any hero, he did not come. SHe had been left alone in her own pain and suffering.

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Beli's graphic attack strengthens her. She isn't deemed weak and doesn't rely on someone to come save her. She initially waits for "her Gangster", but eventually she fought for "her own survival" and she lived. Diaz shows that she is no less than anyone and maybe even more motivated because of what she lost.

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I think from the moment Beli was beaten to a pulp, she lost a bit of her soul. She was beaten like a "slave" and she took a "beating that breaks people." Perhaps this is why Beli shows her daughter Lola no love nor motherly affection. Some trauma's can never go away.

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Literature addresses the trauma of diaspora through by explaining the connections to the past that immigrants had an experience with. In this novel for example, the Trujillo family was close to Belicia's family because of her relationship with The Gangster and the beat down she got as a result from "the Elvises'".

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In this portion of the novel, Beli is portrayed as a hero, a batman trying her hardest to save Gotham (her baby). Just an average human, Beli's "coraje" saved her life, and lived to grow wiser and fight another day. The world is no longer innocent to her, it is a battlefield

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diaspora: "once again she'd been played, by the Gangster, by Santo Domingo"
trauma: "They'd be [punching her and her right eye had puffed into a malignant slit."

Literature addresses the trauma of diaspora by thoroughly describing the beating she had to endure just because she had the child of Trujillo's sister husband. Junot also tried including metaphors of black slavery within the text to further support the trauma that will follow Beli and all dark skined dominicans even when they move to America.

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Beli's trauma was so indescribable and heinous. No one should ever have to endure the pain of not only being beaten down by two men, but being ultimately betrayed by one she loved. All while losing a child that she would have loved. Beli is still angry and still has the scars from this traumatic experience

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Literature addresses the trauma of diaspora by employing an extended metaphor. A mongoose appears in the sugar cane field, the "golden lion eyes, and absolute black of its pelt" represent a hope and longing through pain. This attack would then lead to her immigration to the States. When Diaz employs the extended metaphor it brings hope, even while she was in the sugar cane field, which represented the slave rooted history of the DR, as Beli struggles to escape the trauma that exists within the DR.

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Literature articulates trauma in a incipient way. Glossing over trauma, literature leaves blanks on the page. The violence is simply another event that is "pass[ed] over." No one "talked about it," and so it was forgotten. Forgotten to all except the oppressed. It seems almost like literature lacks "corjae," while the oppressed does not.

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The trauma she experienced led her to the anger she had later in life. American society and Junot DIaz's novel brings the roles of an immigrant and hero into the conversation because he describes Beli's strength. Even though she is weak and so close to death, she finds it inside her to keep moving. When immigrants move to the U.S because it is a "better life," they do anything in their power to make it worth the travel, worth leaving their homes.

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Silence - "Not something that she talked about" Beli no longer speaks of her pain and suffering yet it is not known if she is holding in this pain or if she is leaving it in the past.

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kaiju-"a Japanese film genre that features monsters, usually attacking major cities and engaging the military and other monsters in battle."

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Decolonial love is a form of oppression that was against POC (women ) to justify any type of sexal assault just because they are seen as less than their worth..

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American Society and Junot Diaz's novel bring the roles of an outsider

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In this passage, the trauma of diaspora in silenced, such that when rape is the topic of discussion, it is overlooked

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The novel and American society look at outsiders and immigrants fearfully. The fear of an unknown person with unknown intentions is poisoning people in both situations. The current middle eastern diaspora and the diaspora in DR are very similar in the way that people were scared to let the issue touch them.

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Literature, in the context of this book,  provides a fictional yet completely possible narrative of the trauma of diaspora. Many foreigners, much like the Gangster, were believed to "amount to na' ". This is one of the great powers of literature. Literature has  the power to illustrate experiences - be it historical or fictional - in a way that will make us sympathize. The tale we are reading, although so in depth as to address such powerful themes, still is fiction. Despite the fictitious narrative, the real word themes continue to be tackled and at this point , the "sky was the limit". As we further into the book, the trauma of diaspora will be more delved into.

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The passage addresses the trauma of the diaspora by "silencing" it. The trauma being rape is not really talked about within the story because of diaz. "even though there may have been a rape or 2 well never know cuz of diaz."

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Literature addresses the trauma of diaspora through the focus on women. Because of Beli's experience and the victims of sex trafficking, it creates a new perspective of how women were treated before Trujillo was in power.

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The literature of this passage addresses the trauma of diaspora by silencing it. That is, both times that rape comes into the picture we don't talk about it, it is literally just something we don't talk about, because even though "there may have been a rape or two" we'll never know because Diaz, like his culture, does not talk about it explicitly to show that there really isn't conversation surrounding it. The rape culture that was formed, I believe, is a direct result of the diaspora, and the trauma coming from it can only been seen in the rest of his book, Beli's children, Lola's behavior towards her mother, etc.

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"...Cuba was an important component to his prestige - to his manhood, really - and our man could still not accept the fact that the country had fallen to a rabble of scurvied students."

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caraculo= butt face

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"But folks always underestimate what the promise of a lifetime of starvation, powerlessness, and humiliation can provoke in a young person's character."

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This relates to silence. Gangsters like having all of the power and it kind of relates to what had happened when people showed the littlest of disrespect to the gangsters

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Trauma is brought up as the "starvation for years" of the gangster formed his new self. The pain and suffering of his early life brought upon an almost completely new cruel person.

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American society and Junot Diaz's novel bring those roles (outsider, immigrant, and hero) into conversation by creating scenes where the unexpected happens. An example is the encounter between Belicia and the Gangster.

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Yet again we see the author highlighting the negatives of Hispanic culture. Whereas we normally must look through the struggles of day to day life, the Communist revolution of Cuba serves to exemplify these issues, as well as convey the emotions felt by a man.

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The American society and Junot Diaz novel bring the roles of outsider, immigrant and hero into conversation

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"half the left in Bani immediately abonded the DR" - This shows that people unionizing were often killed, silencing them and others who shared beliefs.

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Recently, published articles wrote on "the Latin-Americanization of U.S. politics" when referring to President Trump. We talk to the author of one of these articles to contextualize this comparison.

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Recently, published articles wrote on "the Latin-Americanization of U.S. politics" when referring to President Trump. We talk to the author of one of these articles to contextualize this comparison.

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"THIS COUNTRY"

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Why does she call it a burden?

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though most people LOVE the way she is, she hates this sexism, she's a gorgeous women that is only seen as a PIECE of beauty and not a person

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"God... does not love his children equally"
"If Beli had been a normal girl" she would have been shy

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salchicha AKA sausage

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junot diaz defines categories of trauma, silence, and representation with ideas of human intellectual avoidance to racism, especially comments involving white supremacy. Claiming that white supremacy is linked to silence, we choose to avoid that idea because society has brain washed us to look away from it. We are conditioned by society to avoid anything involving white, yet have no problem speaking on other racial issues. It's as though we are not acknowledging this tension, and thus any oppression is invisible. Not acknowledging and speaking up allows the societal issues to still be prominent to this day.

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He says that the since s is the trauma when everyone has these traumas they keep silent and they dont talk about it because that is what we have been taught to do. To work in since is to work with those areas and talk about the things that people dont want to say or fear saying because it is not normal for them to talk about.

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Junot Diaz defines the categories of trauma, silence, and representation with this idea of things that society seems to avoid such as racism and more specifically ¨white supremacy.¨ Silence needs to be interrogated in able to confront these systems of representation and trauma. Junot describes all three of these issues as a type of ¨blanket.¨ The silence in society seems to avoid certain topics that are seen as uncomfortable. ¨Closing itself in silence¨ when faced with problems. Through silence, we are ignoring important factors such as racism which causes tension in the world. By not acknowledging certain topics, we are allowing for things to continue even though we don't want them to.

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When Junot Diaz say's "work in silence" he means that there is a lurking issue and people aren't really talking about it openly. Trauma is one of these issues that needs to be talked about but isn't talked about openly. This is why the novel has a certain shack to it and the representation of so many female characters is so enlightening. When you see the trauma of Lola and Beli, we surface an issue that spans multiple generations. Trauma and silence and representation are all things that need to be talked about but aren't.

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Junot Diaz is trying to convey the problems carried on since the colonial eras. He argues that they have been preserved alive and have been hard to fight. He displays trauma with silence and classifying white supremacy as the cause o f the trauma- Simply saying "white" had and has been something to fear of.

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Junot Diaz defines the category of silence through the lack of conversation about race. Because the country as a whole is delaying the conversation of white supremacy, privilege, and misogyny.

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To work in silence means to work a normal life while not giving notice to the racial insensitivities and are brainwashed to believe everything that is going on in society

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Junot Diaz defines trauma, and silence as the inability to bring issues such as racism and inequality. He reveals the conscious and unconscious ability to silence minorities that white supremacy in American culture brings

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Junot Diaz defines trauma, silence and representation as the 'no-go area'. Diaz makes a point where when someone makes a comment concerning race, they are almost immediately attacked. The people who make such comments that translates to being attacked address the issue without the intent of harming anyone. Those who attack race-related comments have the underlying motive to nullify their voice trying to be ignorant of such a big issue.

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Juno categorizes trauma by relating it to racism. trauma, people are hesitating to say whites.

the "respect" they give whites. its this trauma that everyone has about the power whites have, whether they actually think about it or not Its embedded in everyone's system.

He relates silence to white supremacy and how people subconsciously accept it. like how people say caucasian instead of whites and the silence behind that. people don't like admitting the brainwashing society does and this is the silence.

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Diaz categorizes trauma, silence, representation as a blank of silence over the conversation that he claims needs to happen as a "collective" in order for us to be truly "post race". He is extremely honest and blatant, which strengthens his argument in some aspects, but also is an example in an of itself because as a listener he made me feel uncomfortable at points because of how extremely honest he was.
To "work in silences" is to work under these blankets and conform to the fake warmth that it provides. i just want to add that when I imagine this blanket I immediately imagined it as white.

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Literature addresses the trauma of diaspora by talking about the generation of families.

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1)Junot Diaz reminds the world about "white supremacists" who utilize their power to silence minorities. Through the use of analogies, and common experience examples Junot was able to connect with much of the minority groups and pretty much speak out for them.
2) To "work in silence" means that people are so powerless that they are unable to speak up against that trauma which white supremacists exert on minorities.

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Junot Diaz defines the categries of trauma and silence by using the example of the universal idea that whites are the ones in most power. He said how his students won't use the word white, but will easily use any other word to define a different race.

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Junot Diaz defines the categories of trauma, silence, and representation as key issues when it comes to racism.

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Junot Diaz defines the categories of trauma, silence, and representation by bringing the attention to the racial bias and white supremacy. He brings these pieces together by rooting them back the colonial era that includes white supremacy and racial bias. He hopes to stop white supremacy and racial thinking.

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The attention brought to the hesitation of saying "whites" instead of Caucasian brings the trauma. The unconscious "respect" and fear of doing otherwise is clearly present.

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Diaz discusses the silence on the topic of race and the trauma that that entails because it is not commonly addressed. He uses relatable examples to convey his point.

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The purpose of this video was to articulate the trauma of colonialism and how it relates to today's problems. He hopes to overcome white supremacy and their heinous way of thinking when it comes to race.

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Junot Diaz defines the categories of trauma, silence and representation by

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Diaz reprimands American's "wishful thinking" of overcoming racism, with his parable interrogations, analogies, and potent anaphoras. Diaz, as Dominican man, delineates the structure of white supremacy outside of America. The transcendence of race between societies strengths Diaz's claim of trauma, with the leading adjunct of white supremacy as the silencer. Diaz follows his claim with every anecdotes of his classroom, where the scholars evade talking against the oppressor, due to fear.

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The purpose of this video segment is to convey that racial biases are still prevalent in American society today, doing so mainly by highlighting logical fallacies. He is introduced to the topic via a specific question about a country whose president is black yet still harbors racism. He relates this bias to a seemingly obvious fallacy. The question is raised: "Should all people with no hands be prevented from acquiring jobs?" The obvious answer is no, yet when no hands is substituted for black, opinions may change. While disregarding that this may in itself be a logical fallacy, Diaz is pointing out how people are unfairly treated based on outside agents, that meaning something outside their power to change.