We All Look The Same Inside
Eliyahu Hakohen,
Englewood, FL.
Being Hebrew is no picnic, everyone uses us for their scapegoat when needed. Jews have been blamed for all the madness including the black plague. Is that why we are the Chosen People ?
Privileged quadroon not passing for white.
Kailey Irene Kaes,
Englewood, CO
My mixed family of color and the white folk who married into it gave me the only culture I know. I wish I was dark enough to “count.” I try to use my fair skin as a megaphone for my darker family’s voice. I try so hard.
I hate these walls between us.
Joel Bass
Englewood, CO
The idea of race was created to keeps us apart, to make it easier for us to harm each other, to make powerful people even more powerful. It’s arbitrary, it’s hateful, and in my heart I can see a world without it. I ache for that world.
Mothers carry small boxes to bury.
Lisa Forster
Englewood, CO
It doesn’t take much wood to build a child’s coffin, but it takes a lot of wood to build all the coffins of the children and teens who die every year from gun violence – nearly 3,000. According to the Children’s Defense Fund, black children and teens accounted for 45 percent of all child and teen gun deaths in 2008 and 2009.
