Linda Leigh Hargrove, Concord, NC. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the Lincoln Memorial and made a game-changing speech. More than 250,000 people stood in the audience that August day, including Rosa Parks who sat her way into civil rights history. It is because of their work that I have the freedom, as a […]
My children jumpstarted my racial identity.
Johnny, Concord, MA. As a gay Asian man married to a white man with two adopted children of color (one black, one Latino), I came to understand my own racial identity trough the experience of welcoming our two children into our family. It’s taught me that to really provide a strong racial identity for my […]
Married, male, 65, grey, overweight, invisible.
Terry Campbell Concord, CA How amazing it’s been to pass from the viability of youth to become the unseen senior. It’s hard to comprehend as we were the generation that would never grow old.
Can’t we all just get along?
Anonymous, Concord, VA. Not my words, but Rodney King’s. Did we not get that message?
A construct designed to divide us
Annette Madden, Concord, CA.
Let’s lower the volume and talk.
C.S. Concord, CA Shouting at each other over the fences that divide us hasn’t served us. It shows a fundamental lack of respect and obscures any attempt to view each other, our opinions, our inclinations and needs in a measured, reasonable way. We have to be able to face each other, look each other in […]
“You’re like camel; I’m like sand.”
Maria A. Kane Concord, New Hampshire I am black; my 5 year old godson is white. Yet, all he knows is camel and sand and the love I have for him. I grieve for the day when he loses that innocence and someone tells him he is wrong.
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