What race are you? JUST HUMAN!
Mika Derifield, Wadsworth, OH. It’s so sad that we live in a world that requires labels. Applying for a job, home, or even a social...
Stealth lesbian: not what you expected.
Janice Vassar, Champlin, MN I often get comments like “You don’t look lesbian/gay”. My response is that I’m a “stealth lesbian”. People assume that I’m...
More Than Just a White Male
Rylan A Brooks, Mount Joy, PA I have never been discriminated against in my life, based on my skin color and my gender. I have...
Cannot White Males Change Discrimination?
Richard Holmes, Durham, NC As racism and hate-crimes have proliferated and reversed so much progress in the last few years, I despise that the haters...
Veil, black, nationality, gender, food, proper names
Asmaa Benbaba, Auburn, AL. In more instances than one, the veil is considered as a symbol of subservience and exclusion by western media. As a...
I AM NO BETTER THAN ANYONE
Graham Davis, Malvern, PA. I am a white Anglo-Saxon protestant male. I am 5’4 with dirty-blond hair. I am a heterosexual. I am no better...
We All Deserve Better Than This
Matthew Wisotsky, Wayne State, Detroit, MI It’s 2018. LEADERSHIP is failing us. WE are failing us. We’re still going to war oversees and in our...
White privilege makes me feel sickened.
Jaime Misky, Milwaukee, WI I chose these six words because they have been a harsh reality I have learned as I grew up. From K4-5th...
Identity is the root of suffering
Scotty, Detroit, MI. Race is real. Sometimes, it is also necessary to play the role we are born into. Most of the time, however, we...
Belonging nowhere, I inhabit all spaces
Anthony Chicaiza, Belleville, NJ. Collection: The Race Card Project, On Location, Hood Museum of Art, Witness I’m a first-generation Latino-American stuck between cultures and expectations...
False construct. Always falls on us.
Sabrina Sojourner, Washingtin, DC. I look forward to the day when I am NOT accused of playing the race card; when I am NOT asked...
White Male, Can’t Talk About Anything
Joseph Palmieri, Framingham, MA. As a white male, I feel like I have been subject to a sort of stigma just like people of other...
I’m a white male; I’m unwanted.
Anonymous, Purcellville, VA. Living in a world where quotas of minorities must be accepted into major institutions, being a white male becomes a disadvantage. If...
Focus on me, not my appearance
Shelby, Sunnyvale, CA. Too many people in this world focus on how we look when we should be focused on our character and our personality....
WHITE feminism. I live with contradiction.
Danielle Nelson Winston Salem, NC I’m proud to be a feminist, but I’m not proud of the unspoken privilege that comes with being a white...
A closed mind is most dangerous.
Rhonda Lynn, Crowley, TX. When we are unwilling to approach life with an open mind, we leave room for hate to fester and grow. With...
