I am Tyrell…not half black
Tyrell Joe Grisel,
Fort Collins, CO.
REMEMBER–For WHITE patrons only
Mary Smith,
Fort Collins, CO.
“Growing up in southeast Texas, I went to segregated schools until high school – Junior year. Laundromats and water fountains bore these signs.
I asked my parents why we lived in a place with such hateful attitudes, and they said, “”If people with better values didn’t live here, things would never change.”” I still left, and I don’t look back.”
Race matters because we make it.
Jacob Addington
Fort Collins, CO
The race issue is kept alive by statistics and surveys which constantly tell us that we humans fall into different groups, and by our own willingness to accept race as part of our identity. Is having pride in one’s own race any better than hatred for someone else’s, or is it simply an equal force in the opposite direction away from a truly equal society where race does not matter? As a society, do we honestly want equality, or do we really just want our race to be the one on top?
Blacks shot brother; Mexican driver, sister.
Curt Lyons
Fort Collins, CO
My father lost two children to violent deaths, when I was young, and it wasn’t until I was older that I appreciated that he didn’t seem to hold any racial grudges. His racism was the relatively benign type of his generation, which assumptions that all black people liked watermelon and were good at basketball. Having survived the loss of two of his children the way he did, I think a lot of men could have lived out their days with racial hatred. He didn’t, and he didn’t raise his kids that way either.
