Silent struggle: impact of reverse racism
K’Lee Rudd, Fort Worth, TX I’m mainly doing this for a sociology assignment…it made me think about how I was mistreated as a minority in...
Stop asking if my hair’s real.
Michelle Ross, Fort Worth, TX I’ve always had really long hair and I attest it to my Native American heritage. But I’m so tired of...
Everyone is unique on their own
Pam Hung, Fort Worth, TX Every race and every culture has a distinct beauty within them. Just as everyone is different based on race, we...
Our privilege blinds us from reality
Debanhi Garza, Fort Worth, TX I chose these six words to make a reflection on how being privileged can disconnect us from the experiences of...
American + International, Oreo, best of both
Joanna Hubner, Fort Worth, TX My name is Joanna Hubner, I am a teenager raised in Fort Worth Texas, and I am mixed. My dad...
Race mattered then. It matters now.
Phyll, Fort Worth, TX. At 62 years old, I am a child of thw Civil Rights struggles. When my son was born in 1971, I...
Black Girls Play Video Games Too
Chelsea L. Harris, Fort Worth, TX. I’m a gamer, and I don’t mean the occasional “Angry-Flappy Bird” app gamer, or “Just Dance” gamer. I’m a...
“I’m not racist, my boyfriend’s brown”
Sarah U., Fort Worth, TX Many people will use an excuse like this to defend themselves. However, what they don’t realize is that just because...
Mama is Puerto Rican, my father, white
Maria Sullivan, Fort Worth, TX Mama never had an SS card, I could not find a birth certificate I know she was illegal to the...
Leave identity issues to other people
Phyllis W. Allen, Fort Worth, TX. I am a sixty year old woman who has lived through segregation, integration, Colored, Negro,, Black, African American, segregation,...
African American Marine New Muslim Traitor
Vincent Simon, Fort Worth, TX. I’m a new revert to Islam, served in the US Marine Corps. Because of my new religion, I have been...
I’m biracial: yellow outside, white in.
Katherine Fogelberg Fort Worth, TX We talk about race as though it is only something on the outside – but I have fought my whole...
