Black Beautiful Undaunted Resiliant Creative Forever
Jermaine Lowe New York City, NY Brooklyn The people and the culture will always be copied, subjected and hated. Luckily, we will endure and continue...
Native Arizonan. Culturally mixed. Perpetually conflicted.
Joe Phoenix, AZ As a white, native born second generation Arizonian I sometimes feel slighted by inept decision making by our elected state and local...
Bland identity. Culturally disappointing. Plain white.
Dianna Pategas Sandy Hook, CT I’ve always felt a strange longing for more cultural identity. My family doesn’t have strong traditions or ties to any...
A white minority during my youth.
Jean Millard Milford, MI I wanted to be part of the black culture around me because I could see the tight family ties they had....
Different Cultures, But Only One Race.
Charles George Pickett, Spokane, WA. As a child of twelve I worked after school, on weekends, and all summer in a scrap metal yard, and...
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...
White American: No Culture or Identity
Lance Remington Stuart Rood Redlands, CA Sometimes I feel like I have no identity. White american? what is that? Irish? German? Dutch? Danish? I want...
Colour is not a culture
Ashley C Canada The colour of my skin does not define who I am, and colours can often be misleading. When people ask me “what...
Usually not racism. Instead, cultures clashing.
Susan A. Chicago, IL Stereotypes that are now labeled as racist, actually have nothing to do with race. Actually, it is cultural difference which causes...
Light skinned people experience duel racism
Karen Duke Hyattsville, MD Light skinned black people experience the racism from within and outside our culture.
Black Latina not AfricanAmerican, neither Latina
Diama Gabriel Miami, FL I’m in between waters. I’m not African American for the black Americans, and I’m not a Latina for the Latino community....
Race is entirely in our minds.
Scott Auden Colchester, CT “Race” is an arbitrary collection of cosmetic features with no reality beyond the cultural.
