While there’s no finishline: Americans All
William Eckman, Atlanta, GA. We come from different families, different cultures, different schools but for all to win as a great nation we must be...
Ashamed by parent’s accents. I’m American!
Caroline Correia, Edina, MN Growing up 60 miles away from New York City in the 70s and 80s may as well have been 600 miles....
We are all humans doing life
Jolynne, Chino, CA. If someone makes me nervous it’s usually because they’re different to me. Different than what I’ve been exposed to. It’s hard to...
Chicana Falsa I Am Not!
Amber Nicole Gutierrez, Hemet, CA. Everyone grew up with a different life-style, just because I look of Mexican decent does not mean I am the...
Being different doesn’t me I’m undeserving
Reel Elsharif, Euless, TX Don’t treat those as less just because they are different than you.
We are all different, that’s amazing.
Devyn, Broomfield, CO I just wanted to highlight the fact that each person is completely different from the next we all have our own qualities,...
Race affects everyone in different ways
Leslie L. Hair, Los Angeles, CA My brother lived in NYC in the 80’s working diligently on writing music for black female artists (Think: Phyllis...
“Immigrant” comes in all races/colors.
Jackie Spencer, New York, NY. The generalization we attach to people based on race is appalling. As an example when you speak of “immigrants” you...
We’re all the same, but different.
Cynthia Parra, Beaumont, TX. Through my profession, I have been given the opportunity to work with university students from marginalized groups and I have become...
We are beautifully different, but EQUAL.
Emily Vallies, Spokane, WA. I am happy to participate in a project like this. It is very important to me that people start realizing their...
You are holding the binoculars backwards.
Andrew Schlager, Kansas City, MO. “You are holding the binoculars backwards.” We are so consumed by generalized assumptions about race that we fail to see...
We live in two different Americas.
Melinda Hoye, Akron, OH Our Hidden Conversations helped me to put words to a heavy sentiment, that I have tried to express over and over...
Stuck between two races..fitting neither.
Margaret Hayes, Bartow, FL. I am mostly White on my mother’s side. Her family is all Southern. I do not look anything like them nor...
Laid his change on the counter
Steve Williams USA I was 12 and working in my Dad’s gas station in a small town in Nebraska in 1968. I had never seen...
You might hurt the man’s feelings
Paul J. Mercer, Lakewood, NJ These words were from my father in the very early 50s. My Dad and I were watching the world go...
