Why is peace, love, understanding difficult
Mark Albrent, Valencia, CA Paraphrasing Lennon & Costello: Imagine all the people living with peace, love & understanding.
Watching White Southern Hate Devastated Me
Aviyah Farkas, Los Angeles, CA I am a 73 y.o. woman who grew up on the Lower East Side, Manhattan; a multi ethnic, multi colored...
Why steal when you’re already looking.
Michael Swanegan, Chino Hilla, CA. Im a 22 year old African American male who lives in California. Whenever I enter a store, gas station, or...
Same DNA but born this way
Lily, Lake Forest, CA. Currently taking Biological Anthropology and am finding it both fascinating and eye-opening. My six words are an excerpt from Lady Gaga’s...
I’m ashamed to be white.
Jason Zeller, San Diego, CA Even though my ancestors came to the United States after slavery was abolished and I am not aware of their...
Grandma for grandkids of many colors
Emma Cate, San Jose, CA We have four grandsons who are half black, one adopted grandson who is brown, two great-grandkids who are half Chinese....
Armenian, Tagalog, Ilocano, no. Wolof, yes.
Anoosh Jorjorian, Santa Monica, CA. My paternal grandmother came to the U.S. to escape the Armenian Genocide. My maternal grandfather jumped aboard a U.S. submarine...
Exotic for a black girl
Jasmin Fortune, Temecula, CA. I am a multiracial girl who has bullied for the way I looked from K-12. I have been hated because girls...
Χιος to Hughes…we’re all immigrants
Patricia Hughes, Lake Arrowhead, CA. My father’s father took the long route of immigration from Greece during the political upheavals occurring in the early part...
1961 Oregon to Louisiana-shocked at racism
Judi Williams, Davis, CA White/colored signs everywhere was so shocking! Am I still in the United States?
Grandfather German immigrant citizen acclimated USA
Susan Mitschke Ccott, Olivenhain, CA Grandfather Mitschke came to America through Ellis Island. He learned English and acclimated into the USA society. My great grandfather...
THE BORDER CROSSED ME: SOY CHICANA!
Leticia Hernandez, Lawndale, CA Chicanos, Mexican Americans, despised, ignored and looked upon as less. They are always surprised when we accomplish something. Or even when...
Taught that race: most important trait.
Marni Berendsen, Walnut Creek, CA I grew up in a town (and neighborhood) in CA that had a mixture of ethnicities. I didn’t know “color”...
Blackcican Spanish Speaker Didn’t Teach Kids.
Marisha Vandenberg, Riverside, CA I was raised in a Mexican household with my mom and her entire family: Mom, Grandma, Grandpa, 2 Uncles & 3...
That is just how it was
Katie Webb, Laguna Niguel, CA When asking people from that time period how they weren’t outraged about the events that were happening right in front...
I want to be safe…again
Jun Hu, LA, CA As the anti-Asian hate incidents, reported and unreported, skyrocketing in the COVID-19 pandemic, I no longer feel comfortable to walk outside,...
