White mother glad sons biracial 2021
Monae Dasher, El Paso, TX I was the white girl that embraced integration in school, first to befriend the one or two Black children my...
Identity stripped for being Mexican American
Chenille, El Paso, TX Not being Mexican enough, and not being American enough is the realm that haunts me and many of us Mexican Americans....
Race is unique and beautiful!
Victoria A Murga, El Paso, TX From EPCC in my sociology class, I have learned more about race and ethinicity.
Blessed, sad, exceptional, annoyed, encouraged, joy
Ivette Somers, El Paso, TX Am exceptionally blessed with the race I was given yet sadden and annoyed on how others perceive me for my...
Don’t Speak Spanish, I WILL Learn.
Cory Skyye De La Riva, El Paso, TX I chose these words because even as a Latino living in a predominantly Latino/Mexican city, yet I...
Go Back To Your Own Country
Aixa Rojas, El Paso, TX I am told by a blonde girl from the opposite team while we leave the locker room at the State...
Are We Really All That Different?
Leilany Lechuga, El Paso, TX I was born in the United States and my ethnicity is Hispanic I find it weird that some people think...
You Still Have Value in USA
Berenice Folks, El Paso, TX It’s too weird how people who seem to be the same race as you (Mexican) behave in an aggressive way....
Border life safety, mass murder, lose.
Patricia Valdez-Harrison, El Paso, TX. El Paso Texas for the fourth year in a row as been reported to be the safest city in the...
But you don’t look half Mexican
Denise Shirley-Carter, Hudson, WI My father is white, Irish, Scottish, etc. My mother’s parents were from Mexico, Spain, then El Paso, TX. However, both my...
A border town taught me understanding
Christian Diego Cintron, El Paso, TX. Culture and race should be celebrated. Growing up in a border town taught me people are different and we...
Don’t speak Spanish, I’m still Hispanic
Victor Santana-Melgoza, El Paso, TX. For most of my life I have been rejected by many people in the Hispanic/Chican@/Latin@ community for not learning and...
I’ve been the ONLY Black kid..
Kelly B. Ferrell Sterling, VA As the child of nomadic parents, we lived where we could and/or where my parents found work. At one point...
Black male in hoodie equals trouble
Doug King El Paso, TX Popular culture in the black community has done a very good job of portraying young black males as a menace...
