Walter T. Pearson, Jacksonville, FL. I’m a black man, of many various ethnicities, Fifth American generation, from a family of military veterans,including my children who are currently serving in the Afghanistan region wars. I have no relatives from Africa (that I know of),so I wonder WHY must anyone that is not white, have to be […]
I believe in the hyphen!
Roberto Jara, Alto, MI. It drives me nuts when people say, “Let’s all be color blind, forget our cultures of origin and just be ‘American,’ instead of ‘Latin-American,’ ‘Asian-American,’ etc. I can be American and preserve by culture of origin! Those of us who come from cultures other than the dominant Northern European Culture, have […]
Refugee. Iraqi AND American. No Hyphen.
Banen Al-Sheemary Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan
I am an American, not hyphenated American
AJ Allee, Bulverde, TX. Hyphenation is made up by racist and news media I worked my butt off to become an American I earned the right to be one, why would I want to be called half American??? earned my citizenship 1995 and very proud of it
I am Mexican, I am American
Ricky Quezada, Sanger, CA. I don’t really embrace beng Mexican. I don’t speak Spanish. English is my only Language, but my father was born in Mexico so I know I am Mexican, but he was raised in America so Mexican traditions aren’t really pushed upon me and my family. We are more American than anything, […]
Invisible white mother feels demographic betrayal
Amy Chai New Haven, CT I am “white.” I am not European-American, I do not have permission to honor my heritage with a hyphen. I am simply a member of the melanin challenged group that bears collective blame for something that some British, African, and Arab people did a few hundred years ago. It doesn’t […]
Why the hyphen? American not enough?
Nick Keim Ellicott City, MD My original thoughts when hearing about the race card project are the six words written above. Then I started to worry about putting my name on the site and what people I know might think of me. I thought about changing my six words to “Afraid to speak; am I […]
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