Though this label can be restrictive, Barrios says that he has used his status as a "double minority" in positive ways.
"At the end of the day it's been a very positive experience," he says. "If I had allowed myself to have been marginalized, then I would have been
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marginalized."
"To get angry in response to that [labeling] isolates me and cuts me off," he continues.
Instead, he says, he tries "to be true to my constituents, and in a friendly way, to bring people into my world"--and into his barrios.