God The More I Sit With This Movie The More It Breaks My Heart - Tumblr Posts

But for real. The talk Rio gave Miles about meeting extraordinary people out in the world but that some won’t accept you and will always tell you ‘No’ and to take care of himself and stick to his own beliefs even if the world is screaming at him. I dunno I was almost in tears because my mom told me the exact same thing when I was in highschool and found out that I wanted to be a Latina in STEM.

God, of COURSE the reaction to “Anyone can wear the mask” is “but not everyone will accept that.” And Miles internalizing the heartbreak of that kind of rejection from what he considered (hoped) to be HIS people leads to him understanding the next step is to reject the system that says he doesn’t belong.