The Girl Who Fell from the Sky provides insight as to how terrible and destructive racism can be, but this doesn’t come as news to most readers. It addresses the already familiar issues of racism from whites as well as racism towards mulattos from blacks. While I do think that publicizing these problems does help society progress towards equality, I don’t believe that pure social justice can be achieved. Hatred is much more fluid than we would like to believe and, as history has shown us, if one group gains equality, the discrimination simply shifts rather than disappears. Xenophobia will always exist because we, as humans, tend to suppress what we don’t understand, rather than embrace and learn from it. Social justice appears to be a theoretical state, rather than actually obtainable.
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