Skin color is a coping strategy.
Matthew Mark, Aliso Viejo, CA Skin color changes varies with the environmental conditions one lives in. Melanin is due to biological evolution and it is...
Race Respectfully Accepting a Collective Environment
Michele Boivin, Buckeye, AZ. Education is power.
Traditional environment with non-traditional views.
Amanda Cook Lubbock, TX I’m an international business student at Texas Tech University, living in the second most conservative city in the United States. My...
Who are you? Papers? Go home!
Nicholas Cappella, Denver, CO. If someone in the United States of America doesn’t have official documentation to prove they are a citizen, they aren’t considered...
Pain anger confusion impatience exhaustion pride
Jua Fluellen, Washington, DC. I would like for more people to deconstruct the role race places in the way they are perceived and responded to...
I don’t… but I really do.
Brittany Price, USA. Being raised in such a racist environment makes it hard to be an adult in a totally different mind set. As far...
Awareness: ONLY the FIRST BIG step
Yzolde Chepokas, Eden Prairie, MN. Going through this process of learning about race, racism, culture, multiculturalism, diversity, and so on, I have come to the...
Race is adaptation to your environment.
Tate Lee, Mission Viejo, CA Specific mutations can be specifically beneficial for an environment. In a cold climate, shorter and thicker arms would prove to...
Ethnically black, environmentally white, increasingly gray.
Lee Stringer Mamaroneck, NY I was born into a place and era in which the aspiration was to assimilate. Of course, once I got a...
Black, White, Puerto Rican. I am all.
Paul Hobson Douglasville, GA My paternal great-grandfather was white who loved my great grandmother who was a slave. They lived together as one because they...
