I’m okay with no racial majority
L J Laubenheimer, San Jose, CA. The thing lots of people miss with whites losing the majority is that no one race will be in...
Child Immigrant, Grown Defender of America
Ronnie Annapolis, MD The image of a child immigrant, who grew up to serve in the U.S. military is a bit cliche these days, especially...
First generation immigrant; you’d never know.
Choua Yang, Green Bay, WI. I was one of the lucky to escape Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War conflict. It was 1980 and I...
Feeling Conflicted about my family history
Romaine Martin II, Richmond, VA. I Think Ancestry.com is very therapeutic. You can spend hours researching your family’s cold cases. One bit of information I...
Personal Identity Creates Community And Conflict.
Ty Pethe, Seattle, WA. For better or worse, we are social creatures that innately create groups of people like us. Whether it’s race, nationalism, gender,...
Collective black PTSD escalates perceived conflict.
Anonymous Dallas, TX As a teenager, I was a victim of an assault. For many years thereafter, I carried weapons. Whenever I spoke to anyone...
Really? Because you don’t look Cuban.
Carina Tillan Hallandale, FL My rebuttal to that is usually “Then what am I supposed to look like?” You’d be surprised how often people realize...
“Ghetto” is the new “N-word”
M. Griffin Tampa, FL As a public high school teacher I hear this word thrown around often and generally it is applied to brown skinned...
