I just want to be respected
Simone Bouyer, Riverview, FL I don’t want to be followed around the store while shopping. I don’t want to be pulled out of line at...
Trying to understand, will I ever?
Brian Williams, Colorbrave Circle 3 I will never understand everyones struggle. I continue to try to put myself in situations where I will learn from...
Do I do enough every time?
Arooj Sheikh, Colorbrave Circle 3 While I do feel like sometimes there is too much emphasis on one person to represent an entire identity (whether...
I have to work extra hard
James Lin Colorbrave Circle 3 Being an Asian and to not feel ghosted at predominantly-white corporate or social settings, I tell myself that I have...
SHELTERED WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE PROBLEM
Anonymous, North Versailles, PA YUPPY WHITE PEOPLE, who look like fools walking in marches supporting a cause that is racism at its finest, After the...
WE ARE ALL HUMAN! EQUAL JUSTICE!!!
Shirley, Brewster, NY All LIVES WON’T MATTER UNTIL BLACK LIVES MATTER TOO!
None of it matters, let go
Caine. I am 25% Native American/75% Native American, I am married to a wife who is Costa Rican. She is of 50% Indigenous and 50%...
I’m more than what you see
Minerva Chavez. People see what’s on the outside and judge me by my looks but forget that I can feel too. You don’t know what...
Why are we afraid of TRUTH?
C. Denise Johnson Pittsburgh, PA TRUTH is… we are all part of the collateral damage of institutional racism. That’s why some of us are resistant...
My ancestors massacred Indians near here
Bruce Hawkins, Northampton, MA. That doesn’t make me guilty, it makes me responsible. Prison is the new slavery, and the Drug War is modern slave-catching.
Did you grow up wearing shoes?
Jessica Anderson, Denver, CO. I grew up in the Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee, but I now live in Colorado. People always ask ridiculous questions...
I’m an Eastern European Ashkenazic Jew
Anonymous, Philadelphia, PA . For a long time, I have known that the concept of “race” is a false way to identify or classify human...
Indian, European, past enemies collide kindly.
Harleen Thind, American Canyon, CA. The reason why I chose these six words are because my mother and father are of different races, my father...
