Like flowers, different colors many similarities.
Countess Lene
Los Angeles, CA
We’re one family!
Not White! I will choose Purple!
Jeanne L,
Little Falls, MN.
I don’t care if you are white, black, brown, yellow, red, purple or green we all bleed the same color, we all breath the same air, we all look up at the same sky. So why must we focus so much on our differences instead of focusing on our similarities.
If embraced will enrich our lives
Nicole Kaufmann,
Newton, NJ.
Why ignore race and try to say that color doesn’t matter when it should. Only when we acknowledge and embrace one another’s differences will we our own close-mindedness be broadened and enriched.
I don’t want to be racist.
Johnny Boyd
Blue Springs, MO.
Sometimes I catch myself thinking things about people, or making judgements, based on their race or appearance. I know it’s wrong, but I learned to see differences at an early age.
All are racists regardless of race
Kirk Fortune,
St. Louis, MO.
Recognizing the humanity of each other below our differences is our greatest and most important challenge for each of us.
Father, Husband, Soldier, Taxpayer, Voter, Mentor.
M. Peek Fitzgerald,
Harrisburg, PA.
In my 53 years of life I feel that I must carry something like this every time I leave my home. This is not the America I fought for. Not the America that I have to explain differences to my children. I’m an American too and I feel like a castaway in my own land.
Fear of change, differences, and unfamiliar.
Dawn Fleming,
Lansing, MI.
Indian-Italian: more similarities than differences.
Valerie Sathe Brugeman
MI
Curious about differences and common ground
Holly Simons
Eugene, OR
Since I was very young, I’ve been curious about people’s experiences, lives, ideas, and hopes. It’s what inspires me to travel, read, and continue to learn throughout my life. I’m drawn to find common ground with people who are dramatically different from me. And this old truth guides me: the more I learn, the less I know.
We’re bound together by our differences.
Christopher Lawton
Drake University
Des Moines, IA
Our ethnic differences make life beautiful
S.W.
Spokane Falls Community College
Spokane, WA
Ideally our differences should create opportunities
Jason Meneely
Gainesville, FL
Celebrate diversity. If we were all the same life would be boring indeed. I find my life greatly enriched by knowing and understanding people who are different than me. The only thing I wish we all had in common was an open mind -for that is where fear transforms into opportunity.
Crossed the street to avoid them.
Chris Sherman
St. Louis, MO
I’m a Caucasian male, who was brought up in a fairly tolerant household, and learned to be accepting of diversity & difference, yet still have subtle race prejudices that are hard to shed. I know in my heart, it’s more a matter of pigment and culture, than anything, but still, that gut reactions is still there no some level. In my early youth, when walking down a street, I would cross a street to avoid passing black males coming toward me (and still to this day, I would instinctively feel/react this way). Intellectually, I know this is wrong. But it makes me examine the whole issue anew, so in a way, it’s good to (at least) be aware of.
Race articulates differences and causes misunderstandings
Anonymous
Ann Arbor, MI
Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan
