Family bowls always have mixed fruit
Reigna, Detroit, MI. All families have all types of fruit in their bowl and their family tree grows whats in your fruit bowl.
Biracial by birth, Black by choice
Kimberly, Detroit, MI. I was just listening to Talk of the Nation with Celeste Headlee discussing Navigating The Lines Between Ethnicity And Identity and I...
I’m just stuck in the middle.
Alexis Berry, Wayne State, Detroit, MI Being Biracial is really a challenge. Being half black and half Arabic makes me feel like I belong to...
Oh I see, you’re Mr. Crawford.
Emmett Crawford Jr., Detroit, MI. Because of my resume and my phone voice, I was given an interview for a job.
White woman black restroom Frozen
Sylvia Anderson Albuquerque, NM Raised in Detroit, parents liberal, family on both sides of civil war. Grandfather said “The south likes the black man and...
Shouldn’t matter so much in America.
Brandi Jones, Wayne State, Detroit, MI Growing up as an African American in America is exhausting. We are supposed to be the land of the...
Chased and called Jap in Detroit.
Joyce Fidler, Toluca Lake, CA. In 1956 I was in first grade, my mother was Japanese-Hawaiian, and I knew nothing about WWII. I didn’t realize...
Stereotypes are a result of laziness
Christal L, Wayne State, Detroit, MI Instead of getting to know people, some find it easier to put people into boxes. Black = bad. White...
Too brown, too white, so lonely.
Anonymous, Detroit, MI p>As a multiracial person, I am viewed as an outsider in every group. I hope that one day we can become more...
Couldn’t imagine a black baseball player
Andrew Detroit, MI Following baseball exclusively on the radio (in the 90s!) from the suburbs of Detroit as a seven year old I just assumed...
Latinx adoptee naturalized immigrant Jewish American
Jeffrey Nolish, Detroit, MI. We all belong. Diversity is a gift.
The only reason I was arrested.
Mignon Lott, Wayne State, Detroit, MI. My boyfriend and I were out on M59 heading to an event that he was catering when I was...
Searching for a way to feel
Hadsim, Chicago, IL. Grew up in Detroit. 1970s. Did time in the Nation of Islam for 2 years. Father was discriminated against at work (thus...
“I don’t see color” won’t work
Leslie Randall, Detroit, MI I cringe whenever someone says, “I don’t see color.” You can’t avoid it. You honor no one by saying you don’t...
I’m only allowed to be white
Carrie Hunsinger, Wilmington, DE. I am a 1/2 first generation American. My Mother is American (Detroit) and my father is Dutch (Holland). He’s been here...
Mother’s warnings at four, instilled racism.
Carmen Davis Portland, OR I was a very young child from the Midwest traveling with my mother by train to Detroit in the 1940’s. There...
