A black girl’s dilemma in America
Selena JP, Empowering Youth Towards Excellence (EYTE) Program, Elizabeth, NJ There is a great irony regarding my 6 words story- from both society and ourselves....
Difficult Childhood With A Racist Father
Anonymous, Omaha, NE. My mother is black and father who I never knew was latino. When I was 3 my mother met and married a...
Yes I take up space, and?
Pam Nicodemus, Yellow Springs, OH. Me being fat does not make your life more difficult.
Why is peace, love, understanding difficult
Mark Albrent, Valencia, CA Paraphrasing Lennon & Costello: Imagine all the people living with peace, love & understanding.
Being white makes race discussions difficult
Allen Hester Cheyenne, WY I have been involved in a speech in debate program for 5 years now (4 years in high school and 1...
Colorblind but others may not be.
Catherine, USA I was raised to treat others with respect, no matter their appearance, but it’s difficult to when my identity is destroyed because so...
Life is Beautiful Don’t Stop Living
Emma GreenWood, USA. I live by these words. I believe life is beautiful, no matter how difficult. Every day we wake up, we never know...
People are racist within families.
Olga Johnson, Wayne State, Detroit, MI Race is becoming more difficult to distinguish according to google, due to intermarriages, travel and better communications between humans...
Racial Construct that won’t stop me
Leonard McReynolds, Atlanta, GA. I’m a black Puerto Rican who lives in the United States. At Times, it makes navigating race relations difficult, for everyone...
We’re all human. Act like it.
Blake Frisch, Blue Springs, MO. We’re all humans just trying to get through life the best we can. Your brothers and sisters need you in...
Open racism is our new reality.
Rhonda Carr, Tigard, OR. Thank you for encouraging dialogue on the difficult subject of race.
Constant awareness is difficult but necessary
Mark Reiter Drake University Des Moines, IA I grew up in a very white Catholic community. I always understood that there was more to the...
Cowards fear difficult conversations and vulnerabilities
Andrew Yaspan New Orleans, LA I think that we could have so much more progress in this country if we were less afraid of being...
“But where are you FROM from?”
Roshni Brahmbhatt, Muncie, IN. It’s probably the most infuriating thing that I hear on a daily basis. I work at an electronics store and I’m...
