Muslim is not synonymous with terrorist
Fahad Alotaibi,
Bowling Green, KY.
I was born and raised in n Islamic country. When 9/11 happened, I had no idea that the world would turn on us as being Muslim. I was thinking that others would notice the difference between a religion and terrorism. I understand that when people get harmed, they start thinking involuntarily. As a Muslim, I’ve been taught from elementary to high school not to harm anyone in the name of Islam, anyone who does so is not truly following the teaching of Islam. Any act I do, shall be my own decision and not a reflection of my entire religion.
Grow like the fields surrounding us.
Kazandra Vanessa Trejo,
Bowling Green, KY.
I was born in beautiful Los Angeles, California. A state full of fields and Latino immigrants who have labored their lives away to prove a better future for their children. To be a Mexican-American that is aspiring to obtain a degree from a university makes me feel like the fields that grow.
Your soul is deeper than skin color
Melissa Pierce,
Bowling Green, OH.
As people, we need to start seeing each other for who they are rather than what they are. People have personalities, souls, and feelings that we are not taking account of when we only see skin color.
I’m white, but I’m not basic.
Savannah B,
Bowling Green, KY.
Though I don’t lose sleep over it, I hate being called a basic white girl. Just because I wear leggings, or am a greek woman, or even get the occasional Starbucks, Im not basic. Im not ditzy or dumb I hold a 3.4 GPA in college where I’m NOT here for my MRS degree.
I am human, stop labeling me.
Amarah Reed,
Bowling Green, KY.
I hate the term when someone uses me as mixed, or they say I act a certain race. I am a human being, I shouldn’t have a label because I act a certain way.
Fearfully and wonderfully made, beyond flesh.
Kelly Nicole Kerstetter,
Bowling Green, OH.
I know I don’t look it.
Jade Primicias
Bowling Green, KY
Would you ever tell a half-black person that they’re not black?
My dad’s from the Philippines, my mom’s from New York. I’m from a world where race and ethnicity aren’t colors or locations, or even the cultures in which someone was raised; they’re how a person feels. They are the backgrounds in which an individual identifies based on their own personal history. I might have blonde hair, blue eyes, and a slight southern drawl, but maganda ako talaga.
