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While there’s no finishline: Americans All

January 23, 2025January 23, 2025 American, atlanta, come from, culture, different, Family, finishline, GA, make tomorrow better, William Eckman

William Eckman,
Atlanta, GA.

We come from different families, different cultures, different schools but for all to win as a great nation we must be less tribal and remember “out of many one”! This is the glue that holds us together and allows all of us to work to make tomorrow better than today across ALL arenas.

Where does your family come from?

July 14, 2014 Africa, ancestry, Cecelia H, class, come from, fake, Family, PA, Philadelphia, recipe, rice, where do you

Cecelia H
Philadelphia, PA

I remember being in fourth grade and the entire class had to make a dish displaying their ancestry and representing where your family came from. The project had my family scrambling. We don’t know what country we are from. As descendants of slaves in this country that information has been lost for years. We ended up having a family friend make a rice dish and I had to fake that it was a family recipe. To this day I still get asked what country in Africa am I from and it pains me to say I don’t know.

Where do you REALLY come from?

March 31, 2014 adopt, Antananarivo, come from, Deborah Lenoir-Hebert, France, Germany, Madagascar, parents, where do you

Deborah Lenoir-Hebert
Antananarivo, Madagascar

I grow up in France (provence) with my white-adoptive-parents and come from Madagascar, which used to be an ancient french colony. So white parents, black girl, thousand questions! Plus I live in Germany now, I don’t now how to answer the question and I like it.

We all don’t come from Mexico

December 9, 2012 Ashley Castaneda, come from, Mexico, Newark, NJ, we

Ashley Castaneda
Newark, NJ

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