Susana Gluck, Minneapolis, MN. There has to be open and sincere talk about race, our perceptions and preconceptions. Each group has to be able to hear the goods and bads we perceive about each other to find common and higher ground and an acceptance of our shared humanity. We can be critical but also loving.
We’re all the same, but different.
Cynthia Parra, Beaumont, TX. Through my profession, I have been given the opportunity to work with university students from marginalized groups and I have become a local social justice advocate. What I have learned is that everyone one wants to be be love, accepted, and not judged. We as individuals, just go about looking for […]
I wish that Race meant EQUALITY.
Becky White Feather Riney, Quincy, IL. I am Native American and Caucasian. I hate knowing that there are people out there that simply because of the color of a person’s skin means (to them) they think someone Black (African American) or any race OTHER THAN WHITE is less than or undeserving of their acceptance, love […]
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Anonymous, St. Louis, MO. I truly believe that for me, the down sides of being black would be worth a full sense of acceptance into the beautiful culture of hip-hop and rap that I identify with at the soul level. I’m hated for that and I understand why.
Acceptance, like art, comes in all colors.
Harold Rice, Ann Arbor, MI. On Location: University of Michigan The University of Michigan has the 8th most international students in the country, which causes all of it’s students to be both accepting and interactive with cultures far different from their own. I came to the university from a town that was 99% white, and […]
Black Skin? Conditional Acceptance In Society
Barry M., Canada. Whether at work, in school, in a neighbourhood… especially a new one you moved to, as a Black person, especially as a Black man your acceptance is conditional. Your every mistake is taken as a reason you do not belong. When you do right no one notices. Anyone is allowed to make […]
Acceptance is more important than Tolerance.
Tanya Hutchins Washington, DC
Christian conservative. Who will tolerate me?
Justice Poppe San Francisco, CA It seems that everyone is calling for “tolerance” and “acceptance”, and yet do they realize that when they call us bigots, racists, homophobics, sexists, etc. they are succumbing to the same intolerance they charge us with?
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Rachel Grant Eugene, OR
Racism to Acceptance Power to Change
Katy Osterholm Spokane Falls Community College Spokane, WA
Infertility Opens Your Eyes To Acceptance
Erika Barker Mansfield, PA Nothing about infertility is easy.. My husband and I want a family so much but so far we can’t have one. We would love to adopt, and race is not an issue. It makes us see there are deeper and more important things to think about than the color of the […]
Altering appearance hoping for acceptance, celebration.
Jenny Rickard Ann Arbor, MI
Race means acceptance of our differences.
Paul Deford Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan
Affirmative Action-blamed for my acceptance
Mitu Yilma Durham, NC Duke University
Obama? . . . Denial . . . ANGER! . . . Depression . . . Bargaining . . . Acceptance?
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Confederate Flag. Wrongful History vs. Willful Innocence
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