Leo Azucena, Gaithersburg, MD.
Color Doesn’t Matter. Tell My Boss.
Tina, MI. These six terms are my experience as it relates to every work environment I’ve encountered. I’ve been successful whereever I’ve worked and am now busy doing the “enterepreneur thing” (successfully). My employment experiences have all been the same. Single black female, alone in a sea of white as if no other qualified blacks […]
When it matters, it doesn’t matter.
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It shouldn’t matter, but it does
Jarrod Dandrea, Santa Clara, CA.
Race doesn’t matter! Yes it does!
Kent Willmann, Longmont, CO.
Why does it have to matter?
Grant Martin, Tucson, AZ.
Shouldn’t matter who I date, Dad.
Nicole North Haven, CT 28 years later I still love him and realize he was always the one I had been searching for all this time.
Race is a Matter of Mind
John Stephens, New Market, VA. Many years ago, when I was a young man, I went to see the movie The Defiant Ones with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. The film was about two convicts who were both strident racists. They escaped from prison but they could not escape each other because they were shackled […]
Black mother. White baby. Didn’t matter.
Christine Mitchell, Reading, PA. I’m a black woman married to a white man but still, imagine my surprise in the delivery room when my baby came out white. Not “white” like black babies are often very light skinned until their color comes in, but white. They put our bracelets on so our babies wouldn’t get […]
Zip codes matter more than color.
Nashae Pitts, Harrisburg, PA.
I’m white. You’re not. So what?
Maureen Burns, Ann Arbor, MI. Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan I have three lovely granddaughters. We’re all different. It doesn’t matter. We’re family.
Chinese or American? Does it matter
Tiffany L. Seattle, WA
Light brown, dark brown don’t matter!!!
Shaunta Whitaker, Lompoc, CA. I am a grandmother and I love being a grandmother but with it comes some heartache because of some of the stares I have to endure when I am out with my grandson. I am African-American with a dark brown complexion and my grandson is mixed with Mexican, Italian and African-American […]
Your families background doesn’t even matter!
Sara Proffett, Healy, AK. I am Russian, Scottish and Spanish. I’ve always been kind of tan and I have light brown hair. I’m short but not stout. I’ve always been made fun of for being a tiny little girl. I am a mix of different races so I was never really made fun of for […]
When you’re 14, it doesn’t matter
Brooke Bradley, Age 14, La Jolla, CA.
Race’s Reality and Historical Legacy Matter
Gabriel Rossi, Jersey City, NJ. As a white male I want to learn about the realities people from all nations experience in the United States and around the world. I hope to do this by listening and educating myself through building relationships. I believe walking with and having real relationships with people who have different […]
Image portrayed, impression made. It DOES matter.
P. Contreras, Benicia, CA. How you choose to dress gives an impression about you. Whether that impression is accurate or not no one will know unless they get to know you. But, they won’t get to know you if your image repels them. Example. Teenage Boy (black, Hispanic, Asian, white) in your neighborhood in jeans […]
Why does race have to matter?
Scott Kirlin Larson Leesburg, FL
Does Race Matter???
Mari Bailey Temecula, CA I am Japanese. I married to American man. However, when I tell people that Im married, people ask if Im married to Japanese guy. I answer, ‘no Im married to American guy.” well….that is not enough for some people. Those people have to know which Ethnicity he is, DOES IT MATTER? […]
Small Ohio Town: Color Didn’t Matter
Debbie Spragg Brisentine Plain City, OH I was born in 1954, lived in Mt. Pleasant Ohio, pop. approx. 500. Attended school from 1959-1972. Had both white and black friends but, to me, they were all just friends – no difference! I never knew anything about racial issues until maybe 1969, 1970. It was an idyllic […]
Forget blindness; remember that color contributes.
Kelsey Hamm Boone, NC Our world has recently adapted to the idea of colorblindness, or the concept that race doesn’t matter. However, to look at two people and disregard their race actually perpetuates racism. The color of your skin, as well as your ethnicity, will at least partially determine the experience you have in America. […]
Articulate, responsible; then color doesn’t matter
John H McKinney, TX King’s speech referred to the time when a man (actually he referred to his children) would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I think there are many, many who,lack character and use the color of their skin as an excuse. There […]
My Race Didn’t Matter Until Now
Juan Lopez Madison, WI I really didn’t pay much attention to my race until I knew the importance of knowing your background and ethnicity and where you really come from.
“Our race doesn’t matter. Stop asking.”
Sile Grace Seattle, WA Said by my Appalachian granny every time I asked what race we were (everyone asked ‘what’ she was). I don’t know how to answer that question now when it’s posed to me.
One day it won’t matter anymore.
Jean Hagen Ann Arbor, MI
I really wish it didn’t matter.
Radhika Washington, DC I wish race wasn’t a factor that divided us as Americans or as human beings. Unfortunately, that is not the world we live in. I wish I didn’t have to think about it, but as a woman of color, I am often forced to confront race and racism.
Should never matter but unfortunately does
Juanita Lucas McLean Silver Spring, MD J
I had hoped it wouldn’t matter
Kari Adams Morris, MN
Waiting for race not to matter.
Steve Everett Tallahassee, FL
white people think race doesn’t matter
Miriam Rand Albuquerque, NM
All are equal but differences matter…
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