Denial keeps these wounds from healing.
E. Martin Hampton Roads, VA So often people act as if slavery was some prehistoric event whose effects should have dissipated. In reality, 150 years...
Always being judged superficially
Joshua Rice Baltimore, MD This is for Journalism 275 Media Literacy Course at the University of Maryland College Park
Sag your pants, lose your chance
Paul Houston, TX Whether right or wrong, the impressions we make on others play a big part in how others treat us.
It takes a bullet to notice.
Taylor J Oakland, CA Student of Ms.Tunik at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, CA.
Inadvertently demonstrating white supremacy every day.
Terpterpterp College Park, MD Jour-175, University of Maryland; Prof Susan Moeller
I will always be a target.
Nehemiah Bourne College Park, MD Being black in America I will always be a target. Some one will think im stealing, poor, stupid, ghetto and...
Hope conversation can lead to healing.
Anonymous Garland, TX Seeing these race card statements, reading the essays, reassured to see that so many people are feeling this pain. Can we talk...
Racism cannot be stopped with silence.
Alexis C. Oakland, CA Student of Ms. Tunik at Bishop O’ Dowd High School in Oakland, Ca.
Subconscious shame breeds fear then violence
Colleen Stanturf Davis, CA With a disproportional number of black men in prison, the cycle of violence really has not been broken since slavery days....
Race for the cure to Racism.
Charles D. Scott IL Racism is the cancer of our society. We have been lied to about who we really are. We have been lied...
