Hold my hand, cancer doesn’t discriminate.
Imari DuSauzay, New York City, NY. Brooklyn My friend is full of ideas and fighting with cancer…We hold hands to share love. I am experiencing...
Disasters do not discriminate. Recoveries do.
lowernine.org, New Orleans, LA. lowernine.org is engaged in the long-term recovery of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Katrina and the levee breaches of 2005....
Together we are strongest, why discriminate?
Makayla Johnson, Elmira, NY We are all human, it is ridiculous that we should treat each other differently based on race, ethnicity, religion, or other...
She is the Black People’s Victory!
Ebony Nichole, Cincinnati, OH For three days after my birth I was nameless because my Mama didn’t know she was having a girl. Born very...
A Struggle I Will Never Understand
Sara Pardo, Millers Creek, NC I am a white woman. I occasionally hear a comment that is stereotypical or discriminatory against white people. However, I...
White but still the minority
Mackenzie Wasielewski, Kailua, HI Living in Hawaii I have always been “discriminated” against because I don’t look the other people. I am always told that...
Race, the easiest way to discriminate.
AnnAdèle Lloyd, Asheville, NC. Appearance is always how we make our initial judgement of someone on first meeting.
Race should not be that hard.
Gabriel Rouse, Madison, WI. I’ve always felt like race is a simpler issue than we as humans like to make it. Why can’t everybody love...
I am more than just white.
I wrote this six word memoir because I think a lot of people assume that I am just one race or ethnicity rather than someone...
“Race” is a concept humans created.
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer Before we did this project, I thought that race, was just, race, everyone had a...
Always invisible, until you’re discriminated against.
Elon Race Card Project, Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
I’m learning to hear ebonics differently
Penelope Howard, USA. I realized lately that while I don’t discriminate against skin color (as far as I know), a part of me discriminates against...
The beginning of tables turning?
Emily Scroggins, CA. I am white. 100% white. 50% of my friends are not white/part white. my boyfriend is not white at all. I say...
I never understood why. Do you?
Kristen, Two Rivers, AK. Grew up in the 60s in south Georgia. As a child, I didn’t know there were differences. I didn’t know to...
Affirm humanity, just don’t discriminate particularity
Fred Sullivan, Saddle Brook, NJ. There is a major difference between seeing color, and othering. I want people to affirm our joint unity without discriminating...
Wasn’t taught “discriminate…so I don’t.
Christina Hermann Mentor, OH My dad was in the military so we knew and were friends with people of other races from other countries. Like...
Yes Black people are racist too
Elizabeth Ragad, Covington, LA. I’m so tired of Black people pulling the race card when things aren’t going there way. And YES there are racist...
