Being black doesn’t make me blend.
Aisha, Detroit, MI. To be seen or unseen, I’m black but I don’t have to relate to all Africa Americans.
Brown Lives Matter Too
Anonymous, Perris, CA. African Americans get much of the publicity nowadays while Mexican Americans face the same stereotypes and discrimination issues without retaliation. CBU HIS311
Most racists I’ve met are black
Dave S Sunnyvale, CA It may be because they have been discriminated against in the past, that black culture has developed as separate but unequal...
Black Latina not AfricanAmerican, neither Latina
Diama Gabriel Miami, FL I’m in between waters. I’m not African American for the black Americans, and I’m not a Latina for the Latino community....
Which of your parents is white?
Crystal White Detroit, MI Growing up with a fair complexion in a place like Michigan is harder than most would think. With Detroit being pretty...
Affirmative action for Blacks, Indians only.
Kristen Jacobson Deerfield, IL I recognize that other minority groups and women have suffered from discrimination, but the injustices committed against African Americans and Native...
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...
Racism is still alive (and) doing well.
Albert Seloover Weatherford, TX Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation I was the first white man to have African Americans as room-mates at Carswell...
