What don’t people get about people?
Stacey Peters, Durango, CO It’s hard to understand why racism is still as virulent as it is in 2024. I’m an old white lady, displaced...
Remember! Turn your cooking fan ON
Joanna Chan, Superior, CO I heard this when my husband and I were living in Indiana. We studied at Bloomington, and I got a job...
Don’t teach kids labels too early.
Cammi C., CO Don’t teach kids labels too early. The time will come because they will inevitably hear labels at school, but while they are...
Adopted from India lived in NH
Kayla Eckhoff, Denver, CO. I was just a year old when I was adopted, I was born in India and grew up in a small...
You’re lucky you look ambiguously minority.
Cristina Gonzales, Denver, CO. All throughout my life I’ve worked hard to succeed only to wonder if any success, any award, any accomplishment was truly...
I speak better English than you.
Nicole Huber, Colorado Springs, CO. I am Asian American. Being an Asian American, no one clutches their purse tighter when I walk by, and no...
My skin is not my culture.
Rachel Brinson, Centennial, CO. People always want to put me in a box and assume what I find offensive, what I find familiar, and how...
You’re Not Like Us, Fake Hispanic
Isabelle Roybal, Aurora, CO I’ve always grown up not being able to speak Spanish, yet I’ve always identified as a Hispanic. However, regardless of my...
I am definitely blacker than you
Aubrey Armstrong, Aurora, CO These are the words that I hear from white kids my age who think they know what being black is. I...
I’m Picket White fence Family White
Abi, Aurora, CO I’ve grown up in the suburbs where the families all seem perfect and happy life the picket white fence families, Mine wasn’t...
Look like them, Sing like us
Geoffrey Wodell Wheat Ridge, CO Many years ago an African-American Country-Western singer, Charlie Pride, released a live album. After one of the cuts someone in...
One Mirror With Many Different Reflections.
Keith R. Barnes, Colorado Springs, CO. I hear people talking about being a part of a pure race. Race is a distinction placed upon one’s...
Before me, six Native nations here.
Minal Parekh, Erie, CO. I recently participated in a “cultural competency” exercise as part of a volunteer training. I could not answer the question about...
Who knew Hispanics could be Native?
Luis Toro, Denver, CO. They try to tell us Hispanics are either white or black but my family’s ancestry is definitely Native American, we even...
The Language I wish I Spoke
Jaymi Serna, Aurora, CO Growing up in a primarily Mexican area, my family only spoke spanglish or slang not actually Spanish. It never used to...
Look Asian but culturally I wasn’t
Allison, Aurora, CO I grew up in a very Americanized community although my family was very cultural. All my friends in school were white leaving...
