I was on a hunt to find black and white film while in Rancho and was in a drug store and saw a disturbing image (candies that were being sold in the store) that brought some flashbacks to a time when I was living in Mexico.
Everyone would call me Payeto Payaso and at first I didn't know what that meant, but then someone told me it was a local candy there and it meant chocolate clown. Being young I was flattered at the time, until I saw the image of the candy wrapper. At first what I thought was an innocent play on chocolate and my skin tone and later realised it was perhaps a deeper racist comment of buffoonery and stereotypes.
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