As a Latina, moving to a new country for college has expanded my panorama of diversity and has allowed me to reach the conclusion that race representation matters both in the media and in real life.

No matter how much we ignore it, these things happened, and racism is very much alive in America. Recognizing their impact and how we can do better is essential to efforts for equality. If we ever want to move forward, we have to look backward first.

Although that’s exactly what a thrift store was intended to be — a place where people in need can buy clothing — viewing places like Goodwill and Salvation Army as a fun weekend is a privilege.

The average consumer can’t justify paying that much for a dress even once, let alone shopping there every time they need new clothes. So, the problem of sustainability isn’t that people are apathetic and want to kill the Earth; it’s that it is fundamentally inaccessible.

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