I’m More than, Less than Accepted
Nicole Reynolds, Virginia Beach, VA. Race often goes hand and hand with self worth. Who am I in the world? What does that answer mean?...
Blood. Sweat. Tears. Soil to Skyscraper.
Jason Williams, Nashville, TN. Take pride in this great nation, remember those who built it.
Jim Crow Paper Genocide Native AmerIndians
Paper Genocide, Pinnacle, NC. Pictured: Monacan Indian Children at Recess How Jim Crow Practiced Paper Genocide Against Native American Indians. Jim Crow laws were a...
Pain, black reaction OJ Simpson verdict
David J. Shapiro New York City, NY Manhattan After so much sacrifice, blood, time and heartache by whites who supported the Civil Rights Movements, to...
Who is your daughter’s father?
Itoko Richardson, Daly City, CA. I am Japanese and my husband is Black (he extremely dislikes to be called African-American). Our experience alone was interesting...
We know where we came from
Isaac Weiss, Wayne State Yes, we’re a Middle Eastern tribe. Yes, white people can usually tell we’re not the same as them by looking. Yes,...
Blood Ancestor Weeps wherever Hatred Creeps
Dr. Eric Montgomery, Wayne State, Detroit, MI Until the philosophy which holds one race superior, and another inferior, is finally, and totally, and permanently, abandoned–...
Life-saving blood transfusions aren’t race based
Margot B Newton, Canada. I worked in hospital transfusion services most of my life. Blood products saved lives…. from any ethnicity….to any ethnicity.
Hapa: but always the wrong half.
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, Chattanooga, TN. I’m half Japanese and half white. In Hawaii, where I grew up, mixed race people like me are called “hapa”...
Rewrite history. All blood is red.
Susan Hirtz, Vallejo, CA. My contribution is to create historical fiction for young adult readers incorporating upbeat stories about our diverse backgrounds.
Diversae sunt sanguine, et ex fine.
Dmitri San Franciso, CA Different by blood, one by goal. – In Latin
And afterall, we all bleed red.
Jorge Grand Rapids, MI I am Hispanic and proud to be so. Growing up I realized that my skin was darker than my brothers’ and...
Asian nephew, but wife’s not Asian?!
James K., Riverside, CA. I’m a white male and my wife is half Mexican and half white, but her sister is half Thai because they...
