Tac Mohamed, Miami, FL. I’ve heard it from friends, co-workers and many in between. Other variations include: You’re pretty smart for a black man. Is that a compliment?
Neither shaken nor stirred but mixed
Malorie Hill, Miami, FL.
I’m outspoken, now I’m a threat!
Izarya Nathan, Miami, FL. Whenever I speak out against wrongs being done I immediately become ostracized and veiwed as a threat to status quo.
I see human beings not color
Christopher Wydler, Miami, FL. People always ask me does it bother you that more than 90 percent of the university you attend contain African Americans? My response is simply I see people for who they are not because the skin of their color.
Those were rules for uncivilized times
Bobby Flam Miami, FL Owner of Jumbo’s, the first restaurant in Miami to integrate. READ MORE on Bobby Flam and Jumbo’s: Miami Diner, Pioneer in City’s Race Relations, Serves Last Cup Jumbo’s Restaurant Closing Its Doors By FRANCES ROBLES JULY 22, 2014 MIAMI — While the line of white customers used to snake out the […]
Latino, unlearning conditioning, better listener now.
Pedro Bermudez Miami, FL
Racism doesn’t have an expiration date.
Courtenay M. Miami, FL I live in a city where racism is alive and well. Many say “You’re in Miami, there is no racism”, or “People don’t treat people like that anymore,” and the most used response I hear is “Maybe it was a misunderstanding.” If someone mistreats you, how can you debate with them […]
Black child in my lap. Glares.
Champagne Girten Miami, FL
Racism is not a good thing.
Marsha Leibson: entry of for a 4th grade student Miami, FL Submitted for a student who just encountered the term. His class is working on the Civil War.
Different kinds, different opinions, do matter.
Marsha Leibson: entry of for a 5th grade student Miami, FL This is a fifth grade student’s work. His name is Alex. He has a good understanding of what he thinks racism is.
The struggle is real and justified.
R. Spence Miami, FL
Ladies Needn’t Wear Long Gowns
Susan K. Schmidt Oklahoma City, OK It was the mid 50’s in Miami, Florida. It was the time of “white only” and “black only” water fountains and bathrooms. I was 6 or 7 years old and riding in the back of the family car with my Grandmother, who was raised in Savannah, Georgia. We passed […]
Female. Hispanic. Ph.D. Why so surprised?
Luisa M Havens Miami, FL
Black Latina not AfricanAmerican, neither Latina
Diama Gabriel Miami, FL I’m in between waters. I’m not African American for the black Americans, and I’m not a Latina for the Latino community. I’m a proud black Puertorrican woman who moved to USA 13 years ago. Upon my arrival to the States, I lived in a mainly African American community in Miami but […]
Spanish ain’t the same as Latino
Daniela Miami, FL And yes, it is possible for me not to like baseball and be Latina at the same time!
First generation American, no root anywhere
Crissie Acosta Miami, FL Born of Cuban immigrants there is a sense of loss of my heritage, culture and traditions. My parents came to this country when they were children themselves carrying little to nothing but the clothes on their backs and even less of their culture and traditions. They were raised in an era […]
White girl. Black school. Called “slave owner.”
Erin Murphy Barling, AK I grew up in a mostly African American neighborhood outside Miami, Florida. My friends never made me feel out of place but the other 60% of the students at the schools I attended sure did. My great-grandparents were immigrants -on one side of the family I was third generation American. That […]
Airport security. Muslim name. “Random search.”
Anonymous Miami, FL
“Puro Mestizo”: Each, either. Both. Neither.
Gil L. Pettigrew, MS Miami, FL I am a university science instructor, science educator, naturalist, scientist & author based in culturally diverse South Florida who is not only proud but smug about my my multitribal, multiethnic (Creek-CherokeeXCeltic-AfricanAmerican-Latin-French) Indigenous American heritage.
Race is made-up, but very real.
Aggie Hernandez Miami, FL
As Diane Rehm would say, “What in the world is happening?
River Brigham Miami, FL
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