DO NOTHING AND NOTHING EVER CHANGES
Laurie Winchester, Houston, TX. Treat everyone and everything the way you want to be treated…..yes, it’s that simple.
Look beyond platitudes and excuses
Paul Herring, Littleton, CO How do you go beyond the attitudes and perceptions of the past and change family perceptions that are hundreds of years...
Our global motivations are innately similar.
Tiffany Wysocki, Middletown, NJ. Monmouth University As I travel the world, I have found one truth: we are all innately equal in our drives and...
I look good because I’m ME
Katherine Finn, Virginia Beach, VA. I do not look good for a white girl, or look good because I am white… I am me, and...
We Created Race, Then Change It
Brent Vuglar, Houghton, MI. Just like any controversial subject where people do not see eye to eye, people tend to be close-minded to others opinions....
Be the change (and) ignite the possibilities!
Betruth, St.Paul, MN. We need to have so much hope for those who choose to see the love and peace in the world. While also...
Intercommunity dialogue and understanding brings change.
Elon Race Card Project, Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
We must look past our colors
Sally Schmitt, Wayne State, Detroit, MI. It can be very hard for people to learn to look past the color of someone’s skin, but we...
Touched. Terrified, Empathetic. Praying for change.
Leanne Gutierrez, Eden Prairie, MN. Growing up white and privileged in a midwestern college town, I later lived in a Central American country for several...
Education is the key to change
Autumn Segrest, Highland Heights, KY. As a white woman from suburban America, it can be hard to understand the struggles of the countless people who...
Education will free humanity from differences
Karolina Krajewska, Hardwood Heights, IL. I read your article in National Geographic about a month ago. The white people are mad about the demographic changes...
Change On Counter Not In Hand
Kristina T. Sanders Sumter, SC A regular day at work turned into an eye opening experience. I had helped a customer pick out a pair...
Human nature doesn’t change; people do!
Rolando R. Gutierrez, Allen, TX. I am not a racist. I am a humanist. We all have the same faults including the minority defense of...
Black, humbling existence to maintain dignity.
Tony Williams, Detroit, MI. Change in America is slow. I find it disheartening to witness the incarceration of African American men at this current level....
