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We are all shades of brown.

Regaining and loving my lost culture

Do you have a foreign name too?

Why'd my black nanny love me?

Colorblindness is not an antiracist action

Race solidarity always saves Black lives.

Your family's not inbred...are you?

Black people are their own enemy

Chill With Anyone And No Politics

End silence, end violence, spread love.

A social construct holds no value

More than what meets the eye

Like you, gingers do have souls.

Whites demand gated-fences, Blacks, doors.

I cannot open carry and survive.

Jew Test: Pick Up That Penny

They've never heard of us before

Groveland four pardon. It's a start.

Cut normal white people some slack.

Her black smile I fondly remember

Love everyone, trust few, hurt nobody.

I Want To Know You, Too

Better to offend than not discuss

Daddy must've gotten that for you

Henry is seen, Enrique is invisible

Faces: University, Prisons. Not the same.

Everyone deserves toleration, every single person

I’m not babysitting, they’re my children

I'm not Bohunk, I am Czech.

My child's not your Learning Experience.

White female, eager learner, poor listener

Whiteness Can Make or Break Change

I'm Hispanic but speak no Spanish.

I bet you darken in sun.

My brother doesn’t look like me

The race card has been overplayed.

Denial. Not just an African River!

It caught up to me eventually.

I wish white wasn't a race.

A culture lost. Lost within me?

Your bar is down the street.

They assume my wife's the nanny.

You look too foreign for me.

Nobody talks about oppressed Hawaiian Natives.

Color Blind is not the solution

Not Director. This black woman (standing next to me) is.

Ain't Nothin' Wrong Being a Factory Rat.

Aussie, but forced to be white

Jewish white woman wanting different perspective

I don't speak Spanish, just Russian

East or west food is best

The plantation haunts my gay marriage.

Context matters in a slip-up, right?

Ain't much if you ain't Dutch

My Mind Isn't Inferior To Yours

I always think don't be threatening.

Native Education: Moving beyond the Asterisk*

Being White and Black is interesting.

Wish I knew you in 1970.

With kids, I'm dad, alone....thug!

What would Dr. King dream today

Are you Asian? Are you Caucasian?

I myself, am not an oreo

I Am Shattered Pieces Scattered Black

Not White Enough, Not Hispanic Enough

I'll never fully trust white people

Where are you from? - Boston. - Liar!

White and some kind of Asian

That little black girl is SHARP !

You've sold out; you're too white.

Two Black Lesbian Daughters. Say What?!

Hispanic doctor. It's not an oxymoron.

We have so far to go.

Clearly, racism is in the details.

Is it because I am black?

Black girls play field hockey too!

God Made us All The Same

A member of the fogotten race

I Am Not All Asian People!

Straight White Males, press blames us.

25% Filipino 75% White 100% Human

Why is being white automatically racist

Birds of a feather flock together.

But, you are not really Chinese

Yo, dumbass white honky mother f*****

We're one race. The human race.

I ask myself what's my part.

Not black or white, I'm mixed!

Colonizers. Enslavers. Genociders. Am I one?

Cant help it being BORN white.
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