Vulnerability and Black Love

During the discussion in class on Wednesday, we talked about different themes that are found in Corregidora. Under the theme "Recovery-trauma", we listed: scar-story, sterilization, doctor, barren/surrogate, and vulnerable. Beside vulnerable, we placed black love. After listening to the different comments on the scar, I became interested in the scar, vulnerability, black love and how they all come together in the story.
In my opinion, the scar could represent all the pain that she was going through. Asking him to feel the scar could mean asking him to not only look at all the pain that she has gone through, but to feel it. When he wants to remove his hand, but doesn't could be because he cares for her. This is the same with love, but it is especially present in black love.
African Americans go through a lot, and can tend to have a wall built up that is hard for someone to break. People can see their pain, see the things that they go through and have sympathy, but they never truly know until they experience. It is believed that the black woman is angry and bitter, and this could cause difficulty when trying to date one. The same goes with black men. When the walls that are built up for protection from more hurt and pain are knocked down, it means a lot. In the story, she is opening up to him. In a way he opens up to her by keeping his hand on the scar and not moving. If he would've removed his hand from the scar, it would've shown that he wasn't ready to be there for her, and she probably would've felt as if he rejected her in a way. People believe that love is hard to find, but once each person is willing to open up to the other, it can and work out.