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Girls are different? Sorry, didn’t know.

Tagged With: CA, Corona, different, girls, hospital, sorry, sports, stereotype

Katharine
Corona, CA

When I was young I grew up on a street with boys and [...]

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Civil Rights era needs extended now

Tagged With: Black President, Brooklyn, NY, president, Sheila Katzman, The Civil Rights Movement

Sheila Katzman
Brooklyn, NY

We got too comfortable after the civil rights act, hence the disrespect for the US president in 2014.

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One doesn’t have to represent All

Tagged With: all, Angela Clark, AR, Little Rock, represent

Angela Clark
Little Rock, AR

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How is this all my fault?

Tagged With: Assumption, direction, fault, narrative, one, Tacoma, WA, white guilt

William
Tacoma, WA

The “white guilt” narrative and the assumption that racism is one-direction in the US is wrongheaded.

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Full opportunity for all is important

Tagged With: all, important, New York, NY, opportunity, Richard Roberts

Richard Roberts
New York, NY

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But you speak really good English

Tagged With: Brenda Perez, Nashville, Speak English, TN, you don't sound

Brenda Perez
Nashville, TN

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I’m white so I’m automatically privileged

Tagged With: College, Cullowhee, judge, NC, privileged, white

Josh Leake
Cullowhee, NC

It’s very aggravating to be judged because Im white. I come from a very rural area with a poor background. [...]

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Being Asian doesn’t mean I’m Chinese

Tagged With: Asian, Chinese, england, ethnicity, Japanese, Kay, UT, West Jordan

Kay
West Jordan, UT

I get called Chinese all the time, and I have a lot of Chinese friends, but I am Japanese. Just [...]

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WHITE people can’t make red chile!

Tagged With: consequences, forgot, Latino, NM, People, red chile, Shara Standefer Montoya, truth, white

Shara Standefer Montoya
NM

Being one of the few non-latino’s in both my family and community this is the response I always get when [...]

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Adopted parents, who the hell knows?

Tagged With: adopted, blonde, blue eyes, ethinic, Grand Rapids, knows, MI, mutt, unbiased, white

Haley B
Grand Rapids, MI

My parents are adopted. I am a mutt. Both of my parents are darker complected with strong features that [...]

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But I think you look white??

Tagged With: ancestry, Angelo Saxon, Arab, check the box, Grand Rapids, heart, identify, Lebanese, MI, paperwork, stress, white

Angelo Saxon
Grand Rapids, MI

People often mistake me for white because of my light skin. I identify, however, as an Arab, due to [...]

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Border life safety, mass murder, lose.

Tagged With: border, El Paso, interconnected, Juarez, mass murder, Mexico, Patricia Valdez-Harrison, TX

Patricia Valdez-Harrison
El Paso, TX

El Paso Texas for the fourth year in a row [...]

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Her black smile I fondly remember

Tagged With: Black, classmate, Harry Dapron, High School, Invisible, nerdy, remember, shy, smile, teenager, white

Harry Dapron

I was a white, nerdy, shy, socially invisible teenager in senior high school. She was a beautiful, black classmate with a lovely, engaging [...]

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I am stronger then you think.

Tagged With: Brooklyn, Nia Scott, not who you think I am, NY, stronger, think

Nia Scott
Brooklyn, NY

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Can a white male ever understand?

Tagged With: male, OR, Tim Collins, understand, white male

Tim Collins
OR

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You’re too pretty to be gay!

Tagged With: gay, Hannah, NY, pretty, Rye, you're pretty for a

Hannah
Rye, NY

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I want to touch your skin.

Tagged With: Andrea Godbout, Brooklyn, NY, skin, touch

Andrea Godbout
Brooklyn, NY

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I am always missing some of me

Tagged With: American, Baltimore, father, MD, missing, mother, Pakistani, white, Yasmin Gill

Yasmin Gill
Baltimore, MD

My mother is white, American, and my father is Pakistani. Where ever I go, and whomever I am with, I [...]

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White male. God I am bland.

Tagged With: bland, Charlie Vulliet, male, Pullman, WA, white guy

Charlie Vulliet
Pullman, WA

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My kids are “beige”, not white…

Tagged With: beige, English, ethnicity, Family, irish, kids, Levittown, mirrors, mixed, NY, Puerto Rican, white

Linda
Levittown, NY

My three children are a mix of English/Irish and Puerto Rican and when you line them up in a row, you [...]

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My natural hair is not disrespectful.

Tagged With: appearance, Cranston, disrespectful, Dominican Republic, hair, kinky hair, Lunia Collado, natural, RI, unprofessional

Lunia Collado
Cranston, RI

As an adult, I’ve been living between the US and the Dominican Republic. While in the US, curly/kinky hair is [...]

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You are running out of excuses

Tagged With: excuses, FL, Michael Jones, running, Winterhaven

Michael Jones
Winterhaven, FL

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Whites not allowed to discuss race

Tagged With: anonymous, not allowed, OR, Portland, Race, race discussion, white

Anonymous
Portland, OR

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Preference for white doesn’t mean racist

Tagged With: black people, Hayden, ID, Jann Patterson, mugged, Obama, preference, public, Racist, white

Jann Patterson
Hayden, ID

The major bad things that have happened to me were because of black people. I was mugged by a group [...]

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S-h-h-h-h! They will bite your ears off!

Tagged With: 1950, Austin, bite your ears, Diana Vicars, gas station, TX, water fountain, White girl, white only

Diana Vicars
Austin, TX

These were the words my mother said to me in 1950 when I read out loud the sign over a [...]

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Recognize your gifts. Stop your crying!

Tagged With: athlete, Casper, cerebral palsy, civil rights, crying, foodball, gifts, WY

Ben Colafrancesco
Casper, WY

At 51, I’ve been engaged in civil rights my entire life.I’m tired now. Give me your gifts. I have Cerebral [...]

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Just don’t bring me black grandchildren

Tagged With: Black, FL, Ft. Myers, grandchildren, Sandra Ebl

Sandra Ebl
Ft. Myers, FL

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Racism is dead? Ask our President.

Tagged With: Las Vegas, NV, president, racism, say what

Teresa
Las Vegas, NV

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She wishes for American eyes.

Tagged With: American, ethnic, ethnicity, eyes, Lakewood, multi, Rose McKenney, tradition, WA

Rose McKenney
Lakewood, WA

I’m glad we’re finally acknowledging the number of multi-ethnic people in the US. Sadly people my age (50s) have been [...]

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I see it, but I’m tired

Tagged With: Blanding, Dustin Fife, See, tired, UT, win

Dustin Fife
Blanding, UT

My other would have been…No one wins where I live.

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Hillbilly – the wrong kind of white.

Tagged With: hillbilly, N word, OR, stereotype, Swisshome, TR Kelley, white, white trash

TR Kelley
Swisshome, OR

“White trash” is a hip cultural joke. “N*****” is “hate speech”. [...]

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White is not a single race

Tagged With: accent, ancestor, england, Germany, hillbilly, IA, Mount Vernon, outsider, Race, single, Slaton Anthony, white

Slaton Anthony
Mount Vernon, IA

My last ancestor came to America before 1800 all from England, France and Germany. My ancestors fought and died [...]

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Yes I’m tobacco-pickin white trash

Tagged With: African, cacophony, daughter, DC, origin, sharecropper, southern, stereotype, tobacco, Tracy Hart, Washington, white trash

Tracy Hart
Washington, DC

Yes, I’m from a tobacco-pickin, Southern white trash family, and I mean that [...]

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White child calls black man Dad

Tagged With: black man, creack, dad, FL, Fort Lauderdale, grandmother, white child

Morgan
Fort Lauderdale, FL

My now three and a half year old brother named Kendall was [...]

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You’re not from here, are you?

Tagged With: Canada, check the box, danish, heritage, New Zealand, other, where are you from, you're not from here

Hanne Nielsen
New Zealand

Wherever I go, I’m always from elsewhere. Born in Canada, with Danish heritage, and living in New Zealand, every place [...]

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No. Where are you REALLY from?

Tagged With: 1980's, 1990's, Africa, Born, Canada, Jamaica, Toronto, where are you from

Barry M
Toronto, Canada

This six word combination together with two other six word combos (Are you from Jamaica or Africa? — No. Where [...]

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She is more American than me.

Tagged With: adopted, American, angry, Billings, Judy Goffena Boogman, ME, MT, Native Amrican, shout, small town

Judy Goffena Boogman
Billings, MT

When I was young there was a girl adopted possibly by a couple in my small hometown in Montana. [...]

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No white dolls for my daughters!

Tagged With: African American, babydoll, barbie, beauty, blonde hair, child, daughter, Doc Mcstuffins, imagery, Media, MN, SAINT PAUL, single father, white doll

Achilles C.
Saint Paul, MN

I am a young African American single father, working hard to [...]

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Roll of Dice Shouldn’t Divide Us

Tagged With: Aspen, CO, divide, Linda Vitti, roll the dice

Linda Vitti
Aspen, CO

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Holy Cow! It’s a black person!

Tagged With: AZ, black person, Bonny Hanan, change, Cottonwood, holy cow, racism, separated, shock, small town

Bonny Hanan
Cottonwood, AZ

I am not a racist and I know this sounds bad. However, I grew up in a very small town [...]

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Reincarnate me? Black woman. Every time.

Tagged With: Black woman, change, england, Reincarnate, Tania Rose

Tania Rose
England

I love being a black woman. If I had to do it over, I would. And I wouldn’t change a thing.

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Equality shall rain upon us someday

Tagged With: Brooklyn, equality, NY, rain, Wynter Williams

Wynter Williams
Brooklyn, NY

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Private school isn’t for black kids

Tagged With: back kids, Brooklyn, NY, private, school, Storm Alexander, white kids

Storm Alexander
Brooklyn, NY

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Race is a misconception humans created

Tagged With: DNA, human, Meg Seigenthaler, memphis, misconception, Race, Red Hair, skin color, TN

Meg Seigenthaler
Memphis, TN

Skin color is but a tiny portion of our DNA. Like blue eyes or red hair, it shouldn’t have such [...]

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Want my babies to be brown.

Tagged With: baby, being black, Black, brown, brown baby, interracial dating, Jade Watson, mixed, New York, NY

Jade Watson
New York, NY

I don’t have anything against interracial dating, but I choose to date and want to marry a black man, [...]

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Race does not exist. Racism does.

Tagged With: exist, Québec, Race, racisim

Eric
Québec

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I wasn’t Asian. I became one.

Tagged With: 2010, Asian, China, experience, Japan, jigsaw puzzle, PA, Penn State, Saitama, Shanghai, spokesperson, University Park

Kasumi H
University Park, PA

I came to the USA to attend Penn State as an undergraduate student in 2010. I was born in [...]

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You’re the whitest Hipanic I know.

Tagged With: class, Dominican, Half, High School, Hispanic, Korean, sports, swimming, VA, white dominated, whitest, Woodbridge

Annie
Woodbridgem VA

In high school, a white male classmate once said this to me. I am a half-Korean, half-Dominican woman. I had no [...]

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“Hush, Child, they’ll take Grandma away!”

Tagged With: 1950's, Ancestors, child, Choctaw, Grandma, grandmother, MO, Pueblo, reservation, Robin Greeley, St. Louis

Robin Greeley
St. Louis, MO

This is what my relatives said to me at a family reunion in the 1950s.They were afraid that if [...]

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Uncomfortable around non-Asians, don’t know why

Tagged With: Asian, Boston, MA, non-Asian, Pamela Hung, uncomfortable

Pamela Hung
Boston, MA

I grew up in a predominantly Asian neighborhood in Southern California. It was a hard transition living in places where [...]

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Trust me, it’s alive and well.

Tagged With: alive, Baton Rouge, LA, Trust

Tee
Baton Rouge, LA

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Dress like trouble, seen as trouble

Tagged With: Arlington, Asia, criminals, dress, gansters, hoodie, skin, Trayvon Martin, trouble, VA

Mike
Arlington, VA

I’m tired of people dressing, acting, talking like trouble makers, gangsters or criminals [...]

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A fictitious category yet so powerful

Tagged With: category, College of Saint Benedict, fiction, Manju Parikh, Minneapolis, MN, powerful

Manju Parikh
Minneapolis, MN

Loved your commencement speech at College of Saint Benedict in May 2014

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“You’re Asian? But you’re so tall!”

Tagged With: Asian, but you don't look, CA, Cambodian, heritage, Lisa Harrison, Long Beach, mixed, multi-racial, short, stereotype, tall

Lisa Harrison
Long Beach, CA

This is such a common reaction from people over many, many [...]

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She’s not my maid, I’m hers

Tagged With: assumptions, FL, Fort Myers, maid, Mara Floyd, not the nanny, presumption, stereotype

Mara Floyd
Fort Myers, FL

Doris* and my mother have been best friends for over 40 [...]

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I will never be black enough.

Tagged With: Black, black enough, but you don't look, CA, clueless, Color, enough, history, Janeen Irving, San Leandro, white

Janeen Irving
San Leandro, CA

For the first 12 years of my life I was [...]

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Black men come before white women.

Tagged With: black men, Richmond, Stephanie Siegmund, VA, white woman

Stephanie Siegmund
Richmond, VA

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Friend James Green Jackson State Dead

Tagged With: Andy Shores, athlete, friend, Jackson State, MS, Starkville, track star, winged feet

Andy Shores
Starkville, MS

A track star, nicknamed ‘winged feet’ for his prowess in his chosen [...]

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First class doctor, second class citizen

Tagged With: citizen, doctor, latina, Rachel Ferreira, Richmond, second class, VA

Rachel Ferreira
Richmond, VA

Latina

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Teaching a child hate greatest sin

Tagged With: child, hate, Houston, sin, teacher, TX, Zuhura Hussein

Zuhura Hussein
Houston, TX

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My granny said no white girls

Tagged With: Clinton Browning, Fayetteville, GA, grandmother, granny, interracial dating, White girl

Clinton Browning
Fayetteville, GA

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My father wanted to murder us.

Tagged With: African, Alia Laurence, Billy Holiday, Cherokee, Family, father, FL, murder, Orlando, racism, shame

Alia Laurence
Orlando, FL

When I was 18, we found out that we were not simply Cherokee and various shades of European pale. (My [...]

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Yes, I’m white. Don’t blame me.

Tagged With: AZ, blame, Danny A Richardson, Phoenix, white

Danny A Richardson
Phoenix, AZ

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Economic Independence Key To Black Freedom

Tagged With: atlanta, black freedom, economic, freedom, GA, independence, jews, Merlin Gentry, money, revenge, rich

Merlin Gentry
Atlanta, GA

Blacks can learn from Jews.You get your revenge by getting rich and making hiring decisions. When you’re collectively wealthy, you [...]

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Yes, she IS my real daughter.

Tagged With: adopted, Alma, daughter, MO, real daughter, she's my daughter, Suzanne Strathman

Suzanne Strathman
Alma, MO

How many times have I been asked if Marquita is my “real daughter”. My thought is “She looks pretty real [...]

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And only the teacher is white.

Tagged With: ct, only, Sarah Harmonay, teacher, white

Sarah Harmonay
CT

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White mother of adopted Bolivian son

Tagged With: adopted, Bolivian, brown, ct, High School, identity, Nancy Rawn, painful, son, Storrs, struggle, white mother, who am I

Nancy Rawn
Storrs, CT

I have been so proud of my beautiful boy for all of his 20 years. He struggled with so many [...]

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Realizing how much they dislike us

Tagged With: Anger, anti-black, dislike, Newport News, resentment, VA

Tara
Newport News, VA

Despite my personal cynicism and ongoing interest in matters of race, I am still surprised at the pervasiveness of anti-black [...]

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White and poor, must be stupid.

Tagged With: Aris Foucault Etheridge, Leverett, MA, Minority, plublic school, poor, poverty, rural, stereotype, stupid, white

Aris Foucault Etheridge
Leverett, MA

I think it’s possible that the poor urban white perspective may be a helpful one in thinking about race [...]

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Not everybody who’s brown is “Hispanic”.

Tagged With: brown, German, Hispanic, Milwaukee, name, Nicole Bodenstein, skin, WI

Nicole Bodenstein
Milwaukee, WI

I’m allowed to have a German last name.

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1963 Respectful, Uneducated, Dependant, Poor, Grateful, Happy

Tagged With: 1963, Dependant, grateful, happy, poor, respect, Uneducated, Wausau, WI

Louis
Wausau, WI

2013 Attitude, Uneducated, Dependant, Poor, Feared, Unhappy

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Blonde daughter adopted beautiful black baby.

Tagged With: adopt, black baby, blonde, CO, daughter, Irene Eggers, light skin, siblings, Wheat Ridge

Irene Eggers
Wheat Ridge, CO

The baby’s light older siblings adore her.

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G’bye blue eyes, blonds, and light skin!

Tagged With: blue eyes, dominate, FL, genes, light skin, Marianne Akkerhuis, Navarre, recessive

Marianne Akkerhuis
Navarre, FL

White genes don’t dominate; they’re recessive!

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Really love my Northern European heritage

Tagged With: CA, heritage, love, Northern European, Rancho Mirage

Valorie
Rancho Mirage, CA

Hope you love your heritage, too.

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“But, I can see your eyelids…”

Tagged With: Asian, eyelids, full Asian, Janice Ng, Nashville, stereotype, TN

Janice Ng
Nashville, TN

“How can you be full Asian?”

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Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white

Tagged With: anti-racist, anti-white, code, codeword, Lawton, OK

James
Lawton, OK

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African-American, no. American whose’s black, yes!

Tagged With: African American, citizenship, descendent, Minneapolis, MN, rape, slave, struggle

Vanessa
Minneapolis, MN

I HATE the term African-American. I don’t hold citizenship to any country on the African continent so why do people feel [...]

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Taxi rejection opened white man’s eyes

Tagged With: CA, eyes, first experience, Los Angeles, opened my eyes, rejection, Steven J. Scott, taxi, white man

Steven J. Scott
Los Angeles, CA

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I stand my ground for justice

Tagged With: DC, ground, Henrietta Marie, justice, Lynda Tredway, Sankofa, slave ship, Washington

Lynda Tredway
Washington, DC

I have about 10,000 words to say about race in America, how [...]

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My “ah-ha”: race is socially constructed!

Tagged With: Jack Bautsch, Race exhibit, Seattle, Seattle Center, social construct, WA

Jack Bautsch
Seattle, WA

The RACE exhibit at the Seattle Center in late 2013 was a real eye-opener for me, a white male. What [...]

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Forgive, I am not my ancestor.

Tagged With: AK, ancestor, Bella Vista, Donna Hanson, Family, Forgive, genealogy, owner, slave

Donna Hanson
Bella Vista, AK

My ancestors were slave owners and themselves indentured servants and sharecroppers. I’ve worked on my family genealogy for over [...]

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Defined by race – who am I?

Tagged With: blonde, define, family tree, FL, identity, Jacksonville, Jamie Lee Myers, mixed, Race, Red Hair, traits, who am I

Jamie Lee Myers
Jacksonville, FL

Many people seem to identify who they are by their [...]

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I am white and not racist

Tagged With: IL, not racist, Racist, white, Woodridge

Dominick
Woodridge, IL

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Growing up biracial was very painful.

Tagged With: afterthought, Asian, Atoka, bi-racial, caucasian, emasculation, Half, Jim Roberts, mixed, painful, racial slur, South, TN

Jim Roberts
Atoka, TN

I’m half Caucasian and half Asian. Growing up in the rural South during the eighties was a painful and humiliating [...]

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To fit everywhere and nowhere.

Tagged With: Canada, Chinese, everywhere, irish, Madison Le Lam Carter, nowhere, scottish, Vietamese

Madison Le Lam Carter
Canada

Chinese/Vietnamese and Irish/Scottish

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You don’t qualify as Puerto Rican.

Tagged With: Angela Denig, fit in, FL, Margate, mixed, mutt, Puerto Rican, pure, pure breed, qualify

Angela Denig
Margate, FL

Not being a pure breed or Mutt as I’ve been called all my life, this is the sentence I’ve heard [...]

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I’m blasian even better, I’M HUMAN .

Tagged With: blasian, Harlem, human, JiHyeon Shaabaz, mixed, NY

JiHyeon Shaabaz
Harlem, NY

I may be mixed with a multitude of things but I am human .

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“I am chocolate Mama is ice-cream”

Tagged With: adopted, Central Africa, chocolate, Color, Compton, daughter, Ethiopia, ice cream, Iran, judge, mama, Naghmeh Moshtael, OR, Portland, Seattle

Naghmeh Moshtael
Portland, OR

These are my daughter’s words. We live in a world of different race, culture and heritage. My husband in African [...]

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You speak Spanish? But you’re white!

Tagged With: Adriana Pedroza, blonde, dad, dark, English, Mexico, mom, skin, Spanish, white, you don't sound, you speak

Adriana Pedroza

Both of my parents were born and raised in Mexico. Looking at my family pictures, I’m the odd one out. As a child, [...]

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I am not defined by society

Tagged With: Christchurch, define, identity, Justina Adarkwah, problem, skin, society, stereotype, VA, you don't sound, you talk like

Justina Adarkwah
Christchurch, VA

I’ve always had a problem with identity, but ironically I realized it [...]

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Indian Vietnamese French. Mixed, and proud

Tagged With: France, Indian, mixed, proud, Vietnames

NIKHIL
France

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Waiting for aliens to visit Earth

Tagged With: AJ Burris, Alien, big picture, earth, enemy, Rowlett TX

AJ Burris
Rowlett TX

If aliens showed up we’d either have a big picture sense of our differences or a mutual enemy

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Half Puerto-Rican, but Assumed White

Tagged With: assume, Chicago, Half, IL, Nick Timmins, Puerto Rican, white

Nick Timmins
Chicago, IL

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I am what I am: me.

Tagged With: Buddhist-Jew, CA, enigma, Huntington Beach, Interfaith, Polish-Eastern European, South African, Thanh Mai Bercher, Vietnamese-French, what are you

Thanh Mai Bercher
Huntington Beach, CA

Vietnamese-French, Polish-Eastern European / South African
Interfaith Buddhist-Jew
[...]

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Being Sicilian explains who I am.

Tagged With: Annaleisle Gingher, check the box, dark, ethnicity, GA, identification, identify, Peachtree City, Sicilian, white

Annaleisle Gingher
Peachtree City, GA

Understanding my ethnicity has explained so much and helped me understand [...]

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Name of cemetery doesn’t change history

Tagged With: Bowen Farms, cemetery, hillbilly, history, KY, Lonna Jo Bowen-AlMoctar, Louisville, name, slave, stereotype

Lonna Jo Bowen-AlMoctar
Louisville, KY

I am from a clan of hillbillies in Eastern Kentucky. My [...]

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Uncle Julian shot, only a Mexican

Tagged With: CO, Colorado Springs, Douglas Rule, grandmother, Mexican, shoot out, shot gun, Uncle Julian

Douglas Rule
Colorado Springs, CO

1904 Sopris, CO, killed in a shoot out. Only reason situation not dismissed is that my grandmother’s sister Laura [...]

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Didn’t know/you don’t sound black.

Tagged With: AK, Anchorage, Charity Son, Color, skin, Sound black, stereotype, you don't sound

Charity Son
Anchorage, AK

I was disappointed that this seems to even surprise a congenitally blind white [...]

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The whitest brown girl I know.

Tagged With: ancestry, blood, brown, CA, Catherine Marden, check the box, El Cerrito, El Salvador, father, girl, Hispanic, KY, OR, rural, skin, white

Catherine Marden
El Cerrito, CA

My mother is from El Salvador. My father is from Kentucky. I grew up in rural Oregon. I didn’t [...]

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Well that’s a [pause] unique name

Tagged With: Bassey Etim-Edet, DC, name, pause, small, unique, Washington

Bassey Etim-Edet
Washington, DC

No, my name is NOT unique or interesting. You’re world is just very small.

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    Can a white male ever understand?

    Can a white male ever understand?

    You’re too pretty to be gay!

    You're too pretty to be gay!

    I want to touch your skin.

    I want to touch your skin.

    I am always missing some of me

    I am always missing some of me

    White male. God I am bland.

    White male. God I am bland.

    My kids are “beige”, not white…

    My kids are beige, not white...

    My natural hair is not disrespectful.

    My natural hair is not disrespectful.

    You are running out of excuses

    You are running out of excuses

    Whites not allowed to discuss race

    Whites not allowed to discuss race

    Preference for white doesn’t mean racist

    Preference for white doesn't mean racist

    S-h-h-h-h! They will bite your ears off!

    S-h-h-h-h! They will bite your ears off!

    Recognize your gifts. Stop your crying!

    Recognize your gifts. Stop your crying!

    Just don’t bring me black grandchildren

    Just don't bring me black grandchildren

    Racism is dead? Ask our President.

    Racism is dead? Ask our President.

    She wishes for American eyes.

    She wishes for American eyes.

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    I see it, but I'm tired

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    White is not a single race

    White is not a single race

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    Yes I'm tobacco-pickin white trash

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    You’re not from here, are you?

    You're not from here, are you?

    No. Where are you REALLY from?

    No. Where are you REALLY from?

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    She is more American than me.

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    No white dolls for my daughters!

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    Roll of Dice Shouldn't Divide Us

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    Holy Cow! It's a black person!

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    Reincarnate me? Black woman. Every time.

    Equality shall rain upon us someday

    Equality shall rain upon us someday

    Private school isn’t for black kids

    Private school isn't for black kids

    Race is a misconception humans created

    Race is a misconception humans created

    Want my babies to be brown.

    Want my babies to be brown.

    Race does not exist. Racism does.

    Race does not exist. Racism does.

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    I wasn't Asian. I became one.

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    You're the whitest Hipanic I know.

    “Hush, Child, they’ll take Grandma away!”

    Hush, Child, they'll take Grandma away!

    Uncomfortable around non-Asians, don’t know why

    Uncomfortable around non-Asians, don't know why

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    Trust me, it's alive and well.

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    Dress like trouble, seen as trouble

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    A fictitious category yet so powerful

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    You're Asian? But you're so tall!

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    She's not my maid, I'm hers

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    I will never be black enough.

    Black men come before white women.

    Black men come before white women.

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    Friend James Green Jackson State Dead

    First class doctor, second class citizen

    First class doctor, second class citizen

    Teaching a child hate greatest sin

    Teaching a child hate greatest sin

    My granny said no white girls

    My granny said no white girls

    My father wanted to murder us.

    My father wanted to murder us.

    Yes, I’m white. Don’t blame me.

    Yes, I'm white. Don't blame me.

    Economic Independence Key To Black Freedom

    Economic Independence Key To Black Freedom

    Yes, she IS my real daughter.

    Yes, she IS my real daughter.

    And only the teacher is white.

    And only the teacher is white.

    White mother of adopted Bolivian son

    White mother of adopted Bolivian son

    Realizing how much they dislike us

    Realizing how much they dislike us

    White and poor, must be stupid.

    White and poor, must be stupid.

    Not everybody who’s brown is “Hispanic”.

    Not everybody who's brown is Hispanic.

    1963 Respectful, Uneducated, Dependant, Poor, Grateful, Happy

    1963 Respectful, Uneducated, Dependant, Poor, Grateful, Happy

    Blonde daughter adopted beautiful black baby.

    Blonde daughter adopted beautiful black baby.

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    G'bye blue eyes, blonds, and light skin!

    Really love my Northern European heritage

    Really love my Northern European heritage

    “But, I can see your eyelids…”

    But, I can see your eyelids...

    Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white

    Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white

    African-American, no. American whose’s black, yes!

    African-American, no. American whose's black, yes!

    Taxi rejection opened white man’s eyes

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    I stand my ground for justice

    My “ah-ha”: race is socially constructed!

    My ah-ha: race is socially constructed!

    Forgive, I am not my ancestor.

    Forgive, I am not my ancestor.

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    Defined by race - who am I?

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    I am white and not racist

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    Growing up biracial was very painful.

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    I'm blasian even better, I'M HUMAN .

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