I’m black. I can’t be racist.

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A transnational adoptee, consumed by in-betweenity.

This doesn't make you a better person.

Judged for wanting to be different

I Shouldn't Get Benefits For Whiteness

My name's Jefferson but I'm Latino

A proud American, unwanted in America...

Others surprised by small kind acts

Being white doesn’t make me rich

You're Indian, which isn't really Asian

Not Your Model Minority

Not all Mexicans are dangerous

Mixed Gay Boy, Lonely Isolated World

No I Am Not A Hispanic

Your Attitude Will Always Determine Your Direction

You aren't Hispanic if you don't...

Talking to Grandma? Use Google Translate.

Hard to go outside a Jew

Your first look doesn't define somebody

Daughters of Muslim father are American.

Do Not Assume Who I am

I'm Asian, I suck at math

Im Just An Ordinary American Girl

I'm Pretty For a Black Girl

There's some Indian blood in me

A thing of beauty and oppression

We don't all look the same.

You don't look like your race

I hate being so very basic.

Love braids, gumbo, Malcolm, and Beyonce

My Hair Is Appealing to Me

Puerto Rico's joys, sorrows and struggles

I am French with curly hair

Rice Is Life And Nothing Else

Race pigeonhole’s people’s perception of others.

Blacks opress themselves and blame whites.

Don't get pregnant before your quinceañera.

Why isn't your skin darker?

I guess your considered a minority

Ignorance benefits no one but yourself

Privilege lives everywhere, silent but deadly

I'm More Than a White Girl

I worry about doing, speaking wrong

You do not look Puerto Rican

Why still such a gap in understanding

None are divorced from historical context

Being mixed-race is a mixed experience.

I have white skin with acne

Keep the faith getting better always.

A single race… the human race.

Dude, could you please calm down?

Why don't Afro Americans row?

I am not an extra-special Negro.

Your race does not define you.

“You accept me after we meet?”

Ignorance is Bliss in Korean Culture

Can't speak it but still proud.

A world hard to fit into

Easy Acknowledging Privilege, Hard Surrendering It

I'm Mexican But Nobody Believes Me...

I am southern, not a racist

It embodies America's hope and tragedy

For God so Loved the World

Long hair for a black girl.

Rooted in hatred, Risen in Understanding

Mexican, Guatemalan, Italian that is me

Do you work in tech support?

I’m Filipino and that means a-lot

Having beard does not mean Sikh

Guatemala isnt in Mexico, we're different

I believe I can do it

Believing And Achieving, Still No Friends

Im Not Connected To My Ethnicity

Faulkner helped me understand my family

Comfortable because of my privilege

Why Do We Hurt Each Other?

Aren't you supposed to be smart?

You didn't think I was Mexican?

Before Trayvon Martin was Yoshi Hattori

Are You the Good or Bad Kind?

Never truly fitting in Americas definition

Gee you’re smart for a Maori

AfroLatin@s are not in the textbooks

Do I LOOK black to you???

FORCED here. BUILT America. NO Equality.

Rice is my LIFE. Deal with it.

Vietnamese, torn between remembering or not.

Black lesbian CPA, it's really me.

Growing up in America as other.

I'm Black before I'm anything else.

We matter because of our SOULS
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