Before I took Psychology 101 as a senior for an elective in High School I hated writing. Throughout my junior year, I had an AP U.S. History teacher that would make me write 4-page essays off the top of my head based on a topic we learned in our previous class and I only had 20 minutes. Though I do love history, the idea of being under-pressure and being forced to express myself within such little time would scare me. It made me dread the class and made me hate writing. I would write every day at the beginning of class and then for the weekend I had a 5-page essay that had to be submitted before Sunday morning. This was truly one of the worst experiences of my life with writing because I felt limited in expressing my mind. This class made me state facts rather than opinions and as a very verbal person, it would frustrate me. Shockingly I ended up passing the class with a 90 after getting some 70s and 80s on my essays and staying late at night crying.  After my junior year when entering my senior year, I was given a 20-page paper due at the end of the school year. It was a research paper based on any sociology topic that I wanted. This was my best experience with writing because I wrote about colorism within Hispanic communities, something I experience in my everyday life. The more connected I feel to a topic the more I want to write and this became one of the best classes. I had to do my research and had to create an action plan as well. My action plan consisted of the ways I would educate many Hispanics on the issue of colorism and explain how it is adding more discrimination to our community. Instead of harming our community with more discrimination, I wrote that we should overlook our skin tones and stop identifying each Hispanic based on their features because it does not make us any better than the people who already discriminate against us. Within this research, I did polls online that were meant for Hispanics only to answer. One of the questions was  “Do your parents or family members call you something based on one of your features?”. For example, I get called morenita which means brown girl by many family members because to them my physical attributes are what defines me and what they criticize me by. For years after being colonized many Hispanic communities have adapted to this mindset that “white means right”, meaning if you do not have your colonizer’s features you are not elegant or beautiful or even worth anything. Throughout my research, I discovered that many Hispanics and especially first-generation students still suffer from colorism within their families and Hispanic community because it has been one of our new norms. After creating an action plan I made a brochure that stated we should educate older generations about the ways colorism and old norms affect and harm our newer generation. The brochure consisted of words we should not be using, different Hispanics of color united, and a list of ways colorism hurts our community not only our people but the way others view us. By the end of my paper, I gathered enough information that demonstrated older generations are the reason colorism is still around and this is because it is still a habit for many Hispanics to point out all of our features. And as they continue pointing out our features they show newer generations that we should identify each person by their skin tone. This is not only adding colorism to our Hispanic society but discrimination and racism in our society as a whole because the way we act with one another, makes others think it is fine as well to treat us the same. Overall, this research paper made me feel more connected to my community than ever before. Reading articles, and gathering data and information taught me where the root of colorism grew and how to this day it affects my community. And as a Gen- Z, I want to see change for my future generation. Hopefully within this freshman composition class I am able to express myself more with every paper I write.