Why so petty? Pale Blue Dot.
Raj Malhotra, College Park, MD. “Are you the IT guy?” or “Does your family own a 7-eleven?” If I bother to take offense on all...
Yes, Black people live on Cape Cod
Canary Lee Burton, Wellfleet, MA. It’s hard to read to hard core hate messages, hopefully they will stay around long enough to learn something.
My Dad said “Jap”. Everyone blushed.
Malcolm Gin, Berkeley, CA. My Dad is Chinese and 86 years old. He was stationed in the Pacific Theater during World War II, fighting on...
We’re all the same, but different.
Cynthia Parra, Beaumont, TX. Through my profession, I have been given the opportunity to work with university students from marginalized groups and I have become...
Race segregates ignorance and quasi-perfection
Melvin Jones, San Francisco, CA. One would think that California is a progressive state that seldom harbors racism. Unfortunately that is just a heartbreaking fallacy....
Asian: Discounted everywhere but HR reports
My experience Seattle, WA People say “reassuring” discounting things like “I never think of Asians as people of color, you’re like white people with funny...
That is a white Jewish name
Sonja, East Cleveland, OH My children are not biracial and their last name is Cohen. However their great great grandfather who married a black woman...
Trying to be. Often make mistakes.
Dan Tarara, Greensboro, NC I’m trying to be a better human. Some days go well. Other days not so much. It’s not as if I...
Hispanic American means living two worlds
Iris Velasquez, Houston, TX I am a US citizen with Hispanic roots and two languages and cultures as a student at Lonestar University Park.
I’m more than a single mom
Ariel, Spring, TX When a lot of people think about single moms, they think of broken homes, and that we are minorities. Even stats show...
White kids without shoes, white privilege
Kate Maguire, Champaign-Urbana, IL There is a parenting trend happening now towards “natural” childrearing which conjures up for me a picture of young kids frolicking...
I often feel like a colonist
Alesia Hassan, Ankeny, IA I am a student at DMACC in Iowa, completing my Sociology endorsement credits. I chose the words “I often feel like...
