“Aren’t you supposed to be smart?”
Coco Centennial, CO Stereotyping; the act of judging one based on society’s perception on a group of people, is a form of racism that has...
Controlled by the chains of society.
Lila Jordan Denver, CO There are many demeaning stereotypes that our nation has adapted throughout history. For example, women are typically judged as weak, which...
We assume you don’t speak English
Sabrina Leira Denver, CO Sometimes when people are trying to do the right thing, they end up being wrong. For instance, every year at school,...
Judge people based on their character.
Pamela Priest Denver, CO I’m white, grew up in Michigan. Had black kids tease me in 7th grade because I was poor and couldn’t afford...
Ancestor shame – free, slave, Black, White
Lisa Roy Denver, CO I have done lots of genealogy research and DNA tests on my family. Most African Americans are mixed race. My great...
Black ? No. White? No. Human? Yes!
Douglas Rice Fruita, CO I struggled for four decades to find some sort of racial identity…I’m bi-racial by my DNA, but having been raised in...
Proud to say that I’m Irish
Tom Denver, CO Plus also French, Welsh, German, Dutch, Scottish and Swiss. My family first came to Virginia in 1700. My grandbabies are now also...
Black in this world is a death sentence
Sylvia D. Stevenson Thornton, CO Will all black-African Americans ever be given any breaks? Foreigners get better treatment in America than Blacks. Jews are looked...
Poor Whites score higher than rich Blacks.
Brandon Cooper Denver, CO Blacks who make over $70,000 scored lower on the SAT than Whites who make less than $10,000. _gap_in_the_United_States#Income_and_class
Hardship. Coffin-ships. Caucasian?! Don’t whitewash me.
Olivia Myers Denver, CO I get rather irritated by the way, whenever race is discussed, it’s assumed that I’m part of a classification because of...
Race matters because we make it.
Jacob Addington Fort Collins, CO The race issue is kept alive by statistics and surveys which constantly tell us that we humans fall into different...
Mothers carry small boxes to bury.
Lisa Forster Englewood, CO It doesn’t take much wood to build a child’s coffin, but it takes a lot of wood to build all the...
Blacks shot brother; Mexican driver, sister.
Curt Lyons Fort Collins, CO My father lost two children to violent deaths, when I was young, and it wasn’t until I was older that...
