I’m Asian. Don’t assume I’m Chinese.
Tagged With: adopted, Asian, assume, Chinese, DC, Gaby Segalla, orphanage, smile, Washington
You don’t really sound black.
Tagged With: Black, Chicago, IL, Marc Dumas, phone, voice, you don't sound
My fears are for my grandchildren.
Tagged With: Elgin, fear, grandchildren, IL, Joyce Fountain
She’s so pretty, is she mixed?
Tagged With: CA, compliment, daughter, Los Angeles, mixed, pretty
White skin means lack of heritage.
Tagged With: heritage, Laura Berbusse, Salt Lake City, skin, UT, white
Time to use my “white” voice
Tagged With: latina, loud, professional, Provo, Shopko, Susan Cissoko, UT, vivacious, white voice
“Aren’t you supposed to be smart?”
Tagged With: aren't you, Centennial, CO, Coco, generalization, smaprt, stereotypes
Controlled by the chains of society.
Tagged With: chains, CO, Denver, jokes, Lila Jordan, society, sterotypes
Does My Voice Count At All?
Tagged With: civil rights, female, PA, Plymouth Meeting, Samantha Zrada, suburbs, voice, white
Oh. Yeah you do seem Jewish.
Tagged With: Davis Apseloff, Dunwoody, GA, Jewish
Oreo cookie is who I am
Tagged With: CA, Devin C. Hughes, Oreo, San Diego
See my color. I see yours.
Tagged With: Color, Florencetine Bourne Jasmin, Gwynn Oak, MD, See
A white body, a black soul
Tagged With: black history, black soul, CO, Denver, Jazz, Lauren Johnston, music, R&B, stereotype, white body
I only see people, not color
Tagged With: CA, Color, colorblind, Jessica Cedillo, Monterey, People
A culture lost. Lost within me?
Tagged With: blackfeet, body, culture, Kaysville, Leah Pepion, lost, Native American, skin, SLCC, UT
Jew Test: Pick Up That Penny
Tagged With: Jew, penny, stereotypes, USA, Victoria
Running for the freedom in myself.
Tagged With: Bob Preston, freedom, military, Seattle, transition, veteran, WA
Dirty dago: my mother at 6.
Tagged With: dago, dirty, grandmother, italian, Keira Dodd, Lakewood, mother, OH
You sound like you are white!
Tagged With: Color, language, Long Island City, Lyron Andrews, minister, NY, sound white, speaking, speech, you sound
My brain, take it. It’s worthless.
Tagged With: academics, brain, Chinese, Nancy Yuan, PA, Philadelphia, smart, stereotype, worthless
Don’t assume I’m racist like you.
Tagged With: assume, FL, frustrating, Nicole Moriarty, Racist, South, Tallahassee, white
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