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I am NOT Pork and Cheese

Tagged With: Brian Batista, CA, cheese, Elk Grove, pork, stereotype

Brian Batista
Elk Grove, CA

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Play that funky music white boy

Tagged With: CA, play that funky music, Sacramento, white boy

Zack
Sacramento, CA

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You’re white. Where’s all your money?

Tagged With: CA, Hannah Strickland, money, Sacramento, stereotype, white

Hannah Strickland
Sacramento, CA

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Mexican, going to succeed in college.

Tagged With: CA, College, Mexican, Natalie Perez, Sacramento, succeed

Natalie Perez
Sacramento, CA

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Hard to live up to yellow

Tagged With: Asian, HI, Kailua, stereotype, Tiana Tran, yellow

Tiana Tran
Kailua, HI

I thought of this because even though I am Asian, it does not mean that I am going to be [...]

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Why is being white so bad?

Tagged With: bad, careful, diversity, Grand Rapids, joke, MI, Tiffany Kosakowski, white

Tiffany Kosakowski
Grand Rapids, MI

I feel like I am constantly walking on egg shells because I am white. I have to be careful [...]

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Why do you look like Casper?

Tagged With: Casper, Grand Rapids, Latvia, Melanie Lindgren, MI, rich, skin, spoiled, tones

Melanie Lindgren
Grand Rapids, MI

I was living in Florida for about four years. Most of the girls I met down there were rich, [...]

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I enjoy being a grab bag.

Tagged With: adopted, different, ethnicities, grab bag, Holland, MI

Melissa
Holland, MI

I was adopted at three days old and know nothing of my biological heritage. I enjoy feeling as if I’m a [...]

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Born with love taught with hate.

Tagged With: Born, Comstock Park, hate, love, MI, taught, Walter Belbot

Walter Belbot
Comstock Park, MI

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White. Work three jobs. Considered privileged

Tagged With: CA, Charte Stuart, priviliged, Riverside, white, work

Charte Stuart
Riverside, CA

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The worst at being a stereotype

Tagged With: CA, Michael Quintana, Murrieta, southern california, stereotype, worst

Michael Quintana
Murrieta, CA

I’m not really offended by anything people say for the most part. Could be for a number of reasons. Could [...]

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“I’m white” doesn’t mean, “I’m Racist”.

Tagged With: assume, German, Grand Rapids, I'm Racist, I'm white, irish, MI, mutt, truth

Maria
Grand Rapids, MI

I am an American “mutt” with white skin and German/Irish descent. People all of the time assume that just because [...]

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Gay is not the new Black.

Tagged With: Black, CA, gay, is the new, Los Angeles, Micah Bailey

Micah Bailey
Los Angeles, CA

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Like you, gingers do have souls.

Tagged With: CA, ginger, Hemet, Katelyn Nicole Volz, souls, stereotype

Katelyn Nicole Volz
Hemet, CA

“You know they say Gingers have no souls right?” “A Ginger gains a freckle every time they steal [...]

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Hold my hand, cancer doesn’t discriminate.

Tagged With: Brooklyn, cancer, discriminate, Imari DuSauzay, love, New York City, NY

Imari DuSauzay
New York City, NY
Brooklyn

My friend is full of ideas and fighting with cancer…We hold hands to share love.
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White Do I need to apologize

Tagged With: apologize, CA, human, Linda Sharples, Riverside, white

Linda Sharples
Riverside, CA

Whatever I say will be deemed racist as I am white. Very few of us are of one pure race [...]

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I think twice before wearing hoodies.

Tagged With: Boka Agboje, CA, hoodie, Los Angeles

Boka Agboje
Los Angeles, CA

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I (don’t) fit. Don’t look closely.

Tagged With: belong, check the box, Emery Boyle-Scott, fit in, group, Lesbian, look, Milwaukee, mom, privilege, whiteness, WI

Emery Boyle-Scott
Milwaukee, WI

I want to belong in a group, and it’s nice to belong until someone looks closely. My whiteness is [...]

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Not Mexican enough, Not white enough

Tagged With: American, CA, children, Mexican, patients, redlands, Spanish, white

Tricia
Redlands, CA

I am a Mexican American that grew up in a home that did not speak Spanish. Both my mother and father [...]

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A Chicano from the Barrio

Tagged With: barrio, CA, chicano, cholo, control, drugs, gang, jail, Miguel Ramirez-Cornejo, Riverside, stereotype

Miguel Ramirez-Cornejo
Riverside, CA

As a kid I was told that because I grew up in the barrio that I would become a [...]

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Changing the path of my children!!

Tagged With: CA, change, character, children, Chino Hills, culture, embrace, Path, Tina Bradford, White is right

Tina Bradford
Chino Hills, CA

Being raised in a home where “White is Right,” I only had one thing I could do. So [...]

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We all have our own battles.

Tagged With: absence of color, Amanda Ardessi, battles, blame, CA, Diamond Bar, problems

Amanda Ardessi
Diamond Bar, CA

Although being discriminated against is still a real problem, I think we often forget that everyone, regardless or race [...]

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Aren’t we all just fragile people

Tagged With: Eric Goren, fragile, People

Eric Goren
USA

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People see white- but I’m Mexican!

Tagged With: Broken Arrow, dark, hair, identity, light, Mexico, Mikah, OK, skin, white

Mikah
Broken Arrow, OK

A lot of people are surprised when I tell them I’m Mexican… I’m light-skinned with dark hair and it disappoints [...]

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“You’re pretty for a black girl”

Tagged With: Alexis, beauty, black girl, IL, Minooka, stereotype, you're pretty for a

Alexis
Minooka, IL

I hate when not just other races say this about black girls, but African Americans alone say this to individuals. [...]

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White guilt is luxury: do something

Tagged With: Ann Claycombe, atlanta, GA, Georgia State University, guilt, luxury, majority, middle-age, scholarship

Ann Claycombe
Atlanta, GA

I am a middle-aged white woman working at Georgia State University, where no race is in the majority. Instead, what [...]

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Black in America, white in Africa

Tagged With: Africa, america, Black, Dauda Ladipo, majority, Minority, Nigeria, racial heritage

Dauda Ladipo
Nigeria

Grew up and live in both the US and Nigeria. Because of my mixed racial heritage I got used to being [...]

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I wish my people loved eachother.

Tagged With: black people, dark skin, gang violence, Joslynn Poole, light skin, love, my people

Joslynn Poole
USA

There is little solidarity amongst black people. For example gang violence, red against blue, light skins vs dark skins. I could [...]

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FAMILY DIVIDED BY PERCEPTION OF BEHAVIOR

Tagged With: behavior, Cincinnati, divided, Erica Williams, Family, OH, perception

Erica Williams
Cincinnati, OH

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Marrying a white Hispanic isn’t mixing

Tagged With: bi-racials, dark hair, Hispanic, marriage, Mary, mixed, South American, Spain, Spanish

Mary
Spain

I’m married to a dark haired dark eyed white skinned Spanish speaking man of pure European descent. He is Spanish. We live [...]

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Ginger? Sorry, I Don’t Speak Ignorance.

Tagged With: Azalea, derogatory, ginger, Grand Rapids, ignorance, MI, redhead

Azalea
Grand Rapids, MI

I’ve made fun of my entire life for my pale skin and red hair. It’s honestly really annoying and once [...]

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What if this climber were Trayvon

Tagged With: climber, James Edward Mills, Kai Lightner, Madison, MI, Southern Smoke, Transworld Depravity, Trayvon Martin

James Edward Mills
Madison, MI

At the young age of 14 Kai Lightner is doing amazing things in the world of sport climbing. [...]

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World is bigger than I knew.

Tagged With: all-white, Asia, bigger, IQ, midwestern, Minority, Sarah Alys Lindholm, world

Sarah Alys Lindholm
USA

After growing up white in a small upper-Midwestern town with a nearly all-White population, traveling both within and without the [...]

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Freedom is my most precious possession.

Tagged With: CA, civil rights, Diatra W Stearn, freedom, Pacoima, possession

Diatra W Stearn
Pacoima, CA

I do things to show that I am free such as traveling, going to civil rights museums to learn [...]

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Utopia is a nonexistent colorblind world

Tagged With: colorblind, N word, n*****, Powhatan, skin, Utopia, V. Anne Spence, VA, white

V. Anne Spence
Powhatan, VA

Would I have been called a “N****” if my skin were white”? Growing up in El Barrio and [...]

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Weary of race talk. Boring. Incapacitating.

Tagged With: boring, Columbia, conversation, incapacitating, Race, SC, talk

Walter
Columbia, SC

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Acceptance is more important than Tolerance.

Tagged With: Acceptance, DC, important, Tanya Hutchins, tolerance, Washington

Tanya Hutchins
Washington, DC

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I’m White, so I’m obviously racist

Tagged With: Connor Eaton, New York, NY, obviously, Racist, white

Connor Eaton
New York, NY

In New York, people of all races live together. But people of all races all have their own thoughts [...]

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Your family’s not inbred…are you?

Tagged With: deliverance, framily, Green Mountain, identity, inbred, Katie R. Phillips, NC, stereotype

Katie R. Phillips
Green Mountain, NC

I might be white, but growing up in the Southern Applachians is definitely its own ethnic identity. [...]

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To forgive is not in me

Tagged With: Brooklyn, Forgive, Gary Dunn, law, NY, punish, slave

Gary Dunn
Brooklyn, NY

I find it extremely hard to forgive those who where responsible and benefited from the enslavement of us.I want [...]

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I’m caramel, you’re peach, we’re sweet!

Tagged With: caramel, choca, Color, Lancaster, Leah Turner, PA, peach, skin, sweet

Leah Turner
Lancaster, PA

One time, a little girl ask me what color I was. At the time my snippy come-back was “Choca-mocha-latte!”, but [...]

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Walking while brown, I’m always suspect?!

Tagged With: brown, crime, Leah Perlongo, NH, skin color, suspect, walking while

Leah Perlongo
NH

Shopping, walking or jogging on the street, sitting in a park; I always feel people eyeing me suspiciously. People will always [...]

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I’m mixed with black and blacker.

Tagged With: Black, blacker, Houston, mixed, SaMantha Shields, TX

SaMantha Shields
Houston, TX

I’ve been all over the world and I’ve been called pretty much any race you could think of. It drives [...]

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Prejudice, lying in wait, hidden underneath.

Tagged With: disguise, hidden, lying, Malvern, Obama, OH, prejuduce, Rhonda, underneath

Rhonda
Malvern, OH

You see it rear it’s ugly head every so often. Like during the first Obama campaign. He was only in office [...]

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White people will never play fair.

Tagged With: fair, Fishers, Gill Moore, IN, Native American, white people

Gill Moore
Fishers, IN

Ask a Native American–IF you can find one.

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European American instead of “white” please.

Tagged With: European American, Lake Oswego, Laura Lentz, OR, white

Laura Lentz
Lake Oswego, OR

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Yes, I’m Asian, but not Chinese.

Tagged With: Asian, Chinese, KS, Lawrence, YUki

YUki
Lawrence, KS

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I’m white, but from the ghetto.

Tagged With: Ellie Couch, ghetto, Kentwood, MI, stereotype, white

Ellie Couch
Kentwood, MI

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They got Black people in England?

Tagged With: assistant, black people, Donna Alcindor, england, United Kingdom

Donna Alcindor
United Kingdom

I asked the sales assistant the price of something in a department store. She was also black. First came the [...]

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Watch me pay for this

Tagged With: black man, Houghton, James Henderson, MI, pay, stereotype

James Henderson
Houghton, MI

I’m a black man. There is this stereotype, that all black people steal, so whenever we walk into a store [...]

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