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A tale of my father

Charon Mcclain,
Dallas, TX.

In 2009, my father a proud military man passed. He was a great dad and loving husband. He was a proud man who had been in the Air Force and run his own business. I thought I knew all the stories that could be told. Until a pilot sent his condolences to our family and how much he respected my dad. The story he told was after flying a mission for the military and having to drive to another base they need to find a hotel. Being tired, he went to bed. He did not realize until the next morning that my father had spent the night in the car because the hotel would not accept blacks. My dad who served his country honorably and well but still suffered discrimination. He never told anyone this story.

Tomorrow’s prejudice is class, not race.

Nate Pickett
Kensington, CT

If I see a group of rowdy teens in large fitted hats, Ed Hardy sweatshirts, and baggy jeans, I get a little uncomfortable, regardless if they are black, white, Hispanic, etc. If I see a group of well groomed men and women in suits carrying briefcases/laptop bags, again, regardless of race, I don’t think twice about it; just a group of professionals. Right or wrong, the perceived class of the individual(s) is where my prejudice and discrimination lies.

We are lazy, we shouldn’t be.

Gil,
Ann Arbor, MI.
Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan

I believe that discrimination and racist attitudes derives from human nature to be lazy. Because we humans are so lazy, we do not spend the effort and time to learn about the individual but instead, discriminate people by their skin color. This attitude is wrong, because obviously an individual do not behave in a certain way or has certain traits because of their skin color and once certain notion is linked to a certain skin color, people of those skin color will start associating with that notion. Once enough correlation has been made, attitudes, or racism, toward certain skin colors will also be made. Neither discrimination nor racism is acceptable.

Jewish: No longer a race. Right?

Jessamyn
CT

My parent’s generation lost relatives in Europe for being part of the “Jewish race.” In America, they dealt with antisemitism and quotas until one day, they were suddenly “white.” Now American Muslims feel the lash of religious discrimination. And yet … even as we think antisemitism is over, someone bombs a synagogue in NJ or shoots Jewish schoolchildren in France. When will we learn to talk to one another and find our common ground?

Overcome prejudice… Embrace differences… It matters!

Sharon Beck
Iowa City, IA

I love the line from the movie Temple Grandin; “Remember…different, not less.” I think this can apply to any group subjected to prejudice and discrimination

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