Managed education despite resistance. Still uncertified.
Sunny G. Sampson, Albuquerque, NM. I managed to obtain one degree, still paying for it. Have attempted two other degrees. The debt and the education...
Native Education: Moving beyond the Asterisk*
Alberta Jones, Juneau, AK. Alaska Natives and American Indians are often just an asterisk (*) in higher education and other data. We are collectively, trying...
Wish more whites knew black history
Rebecca Montgomery, San Marcos, TX As a white American history professor who specializes in race and gender analysis, I think that white Americans can’t really...
Mexican hands are for farm labor.
Fred Rocha, Huntington Beach, CA Those are the words my parents were told by their counselors in Los Angeles high schools back in the 1940s....
The young are not naturally prejudiced.
Adam Jones, Chaska, MN. I am a para in a special education class, and the high school in which I work is very diverse. The...
Future Doctor. Double Standard Of Excellence!
D’Lauren Oxidine, Delray Beach, FL. As a future doctor of education, one would assume that success would be highly attainable. However, because of my age,...
Educating Myself on My Own Privilege
Rhiannon Emma Farr, Minneapolis, MN I haven’t lived a great life, nor a terrible one. I suffer depression and anxiety and other mental illnesses and...
Every education leads to another future
Daisha Taylor Cleveland, OH Every time an African American graduates is another way we prove society wrong. But it is another future persued and created.
Plants, birds, people – celebrate life’s colors.
Rose Mary Prifest, Wayne State, Harper Woods, MI If there is anything important I learned in my lifetime, it’s acceptance of peoples’ differences. The key...
Race Respectfully Accepting a Collective Environment
Michele Boivin, Buckeye, AZ. Education is power.
It’s time to expect the unexpected.
Desiree, Chesapeake, VA. When I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s I use to hear about black people are the most uneducated race,...
I am white but not Trumpy
Ronnie Savoie, Gonzales, LA I’m Cajun (Acadian diaspora settling in Louisiana) and have a tiny percentage of Micmac First Nations people from the 1600s. My...
Ivy League, Indian Asian American aspiration
Radhika Guruju Chandler, AZ Education is what helped us get to this country and therefore for most Asian Indian families it still remains the top...
Today I applied for a passport
Larry Smith (Vietnam Veteran), Saint Louis, MO. I look around and see white fear of black people (especially black men) on the rise as reflected...
School integration enriched my white life.
Cynthia Waszak Geary, Baltimore, MD. I grew up in Durham, NC and attended Hillside High School as part of the first court ordered desegregation plan...
Encourage education and tolerance for everyone
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