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Caught between defying and affirming stereotypes.

Tagged With: businessman, caught between, Chinese, choices, doctor, lawyer, Los Angeles, stereotype

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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

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Wow! You’re so articulate!

Tagged With: articualte, CA, Los Angeles, S Woods, stereotype

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I’m more than a basketball player.

Tagged With: basketball, CA, Los Angeles, Michael Erike, pain, Race, stereotype

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Gay is not the new Black.

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

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I think twice before wearing hoodies.

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

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Saddened, inspired, still far to go

Tagged With: CA, diversity, equal, exhibition, inspired, Jeff Schaffer, Los Angeles, sad

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She’s so pretty, is she mixed?

Tagged With: CA, compliment, daughter, Los Angeles, mixed, pretty

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I’m not your stereotypical Asian American

Tagged With: asian-american, CA, Dae-Hyun Jin, Ivy League, Korean, Los Angeles, stereotype, working-class

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Really, but you don’t look Mexican.

Tagged With: CA, cringe, culture, Los Angeles, Mexican, Nayeli G. Velez, Race

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This question shouldn’t even be there.

Tagged With: america, CA, diversity, Eastern Europe, focus, labels, Los Angeles, Samantha D.

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That Asian girl in the background

Tagged With: Asian, CA, identify, Los Angeles, Lydia Ho, that girl

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I used to hide my freckles

Tagged With: CA, Carissa D., freckles, hide, Los Angeles

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Other ethnicities get all the scholarships.

Tagged With: CA, Carissa Brown, College, ethnicities, Los Angeles, scholarship, scholarships, white

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But you speak in perfect English.

Tagged With: but you sound, CA, English, India, International, Krisha Jain, Los Angeles, speak

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Complacency will never win the race

Tagged With: CA, complacency, Los Angeles, Race, win

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Girl, you got that good hair.

Tagged With: Africa, CA, Clare Norris-Bell, good hair, Los Angeles, nappy, slave trade, texture

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You’re Asian. But you have fun?

Tagged With: Asian, CA, fun, Los Angeles, Sabrina Dendle, stereotyoe

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You speak spanish? You are Mexican.

Tagged With: CA, Juan De Rada, Los Angeles, Mexican, Spanish, speak Spanish

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One race mixed heritage race won

Tagged With: CA, Human race, Los Angeles, Mary Ann Morano, one race, won

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Why is skin color so fascinating?

Tagged With: CA, facinating, Los Angeles, Sanjay Raval, skin, skin color

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Keep Calm, I’m Black and Educated

Tagged With: Black, Black woman, CA, calm, educated, Los Angeles

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No, I actually don’t drink Starbucks.

Tagged With: CA, Los Angeles, preppy, starbucks, stereotypes

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Bi-racial daughter draws Black self portraits.

Tagged With: bi-racial, CA, daughter, Los Angeles, mixed, self-portrait

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Adobo Beef Stew Rice Potatoes: Dinner

Tagged With: 1717, Adobo, Beef Stew, CA, Chinese, danish, dinner, Fillipino, German, Greek, Hapa, James Estanislao Herr, Los Angeles, mestizo, opportunity, Spanish, tisoy

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People of color are racist, too.

Tagged With: CA, Chinese, Chinese Japanese, dirty knees, Japanese, look at these!, Los Angeles, Lynn Lomibao, people of color, Racist

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What does “majority minority” even mean?

Tagged With: Asian, Black, CA, caucasian, Hispanic, Los Angeles, majority, mean, Minority, non-white, Peter Kim

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Mixed Latina two times “different”, lonely.

Tagged With: CA, different, latina, lonely, Los Angeles, Mara Andino, mixed, Puerto Rican, Tiano Indian

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But Where Are You From, Originally?

Tagged With: CA, Christian La Mont, Los Angeles, where are you from

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Saying you’re “color blind” is OFFENSIVE.

Tagged With: CA, color-blind, don't see color, Lacey Johnson, Los Angeles, offensive

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Your lack of education is voluntary.

Tagged With: blame, CA, education, Los Angeles, public library, school, voluntary, Winter Rose

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Kofi is a fake white man!

Tagged With: African, CA, fake, French-Canadian, Kofi M. G. W. Opantiri, Los Angeles, NYC, one-drop, real, white man

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This apartment is no longer available.

Tagged With: apartment, available, CA, Los Angeles, Susan Alvarez

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I’m not White, I am Jewish.

Tagged With: CA, Jewish, Los Angeles, Michelle Westmiller, white

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No B’s in an Asian Family

Tagged With: @caitlinchris, CA, diverse, Family, Hawaii, HI, Jessie Blakely, Los Angeles, stereotype

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Empowered Latina recovering from self hate

Tagged With: brown, CA, children, East LA, empowered, latina, Los Angeles, Natalia Lopez, self hate, strong

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People say I don’t look Jewish

Tagged With: CA, Jewish, Lesley Krane, Los Angeles, you don't look

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I am a “real” Black person.

Tagged With: assumptions, Black, CA, exclusion, Los Angeles, Maya Segirah, real

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You have a cute English accent.

Tagged With: accent, Angel Liu, CA, China, cute, English, International, Los Angeles, student

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Are you sure you’re not mixed?

Tagged With: CA, Jennifer Lindsay, Los Angeles, mixed, where are you from

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Dark mother. Fair daughter. Recessive genes.

Tagged With: brown, CA, DNA, human, Los Angeles, recessive genes, Rita Kane

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Color is my armor: its heavy

Tagged With: Alicia Lara, armor, CA, Chicana, Color, heavy, Los Angeles

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My spouse is a black man

Tagged With: black man, CA, interracial marriage, Los Angeles, marriage, mixed marriage, spouse, Thomas C. Hofstra

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The ocean does not see race.

Tagged With: Black, CA, femaile, Los Angeles, Mary Mills, ocean, stereotype, surf, surfer

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no kissing in public gay boy

Tagged With: boy, CA, gay, kissing, Los Angeles, public, Robert Lee, same ilk, significant other

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My children have no heritage day.

Tagged With: CA, children, clueless, Earthlings, ethnic background, heritage day, identity, Los Angeles

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Thanks, We’ll take over, black man.

Tagged With: Andre A Clark, black man, CA, leadership, Los Angeles, overlooked, work

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Race America: deep scars, tall fences.

Tagged With: america, Bernard Lhert, CA, deep scars, Los Angeles, Race, tall fences

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Must be black on the inside

Tagged With: Angie Featherstone, Black, grandmother, Inside, Los Angeles

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Amazed it is still an issue

Tagged With: Brigitte Ferry, CA, ignorance, issue, Los Angeles, variety

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He called my dad a wetback.

Tagged With: Arturo Aguilar, CA, father, Los Angeles, wetback

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You don’t have to whisper “black.”

Tagged With: Black, CA, Los Angeles, Tracy Gray, whisper

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Heroic face seldom seen in media

Tagged With: CA, Color, face, heroic, leaders, Los Angeles, Media

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I can’t find Home… Found it!

Tagged With: adopted, CA, found, Home, homesick, Korea, Los Angeles, Mari Pollack

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My neighborhood was notorious for racism.

Tagged With: 1959, CA, DE, fire, Julie Simon, Los Angeles, neighborhood, New Casle, racism, Yohuru Williams

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Is White is the new Black?

Tagged With: Black, CA, Craig Wolford, Los Angeles, new, white

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But, you didn’t sound black.

Tagged With: Black, Los Angeles, sound, stereotypes, Steven Nelson

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Them That’s Got Shall Get. History.

Tagged With: CA, Daria Roithmayr, disparities, history, Los Angeles, racial lines, Rich Ford, THEM

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Almost OK that I am childless

Tagged With: African American, CA, Carol A., childless, children, generation, Los Angeles, safe

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Like flowers, different colors many similarities.

Tagged With: CA, colors, Countess Lene, differences, Family, flowers, Los Angeles, similarities

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Whites can’t distinguish Harvard from Hoodlum.

Tagged With: Alisa Dennis, CA, Harvard, hoodlum, Los Angeles, stereotypes, whites

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