Historians colonized my mind, religion colonized my spirit, and pageants colonized my self-image. All of my education be it the “knowledge” I learned in the classroom or the “care” I received at home had bent me to the will of the colonized mindset. — You don’t have to go to another country to see the effects of colonialism. Whether you see colonialism in the faces of young Puerto Rican kids in the streets of the Bronx or the newly immigrated Southeast Asian family that moved in the middle of America — it is present…