Die hard when you try hard
Mohamed Jamal
Minneapolis Community & Technical College, MN
Hard to Summarize in Six Words
Nicholas Herndon,
Antwerp, OH.
Overcoming obstacles does not mean “privileged”
LB
White does not mean privileged. My grandfather grew up one room house with no electricity and an outhouse.
My father worked hard so we didn’t have to.
Race should not be that hard.
Gabriel Rouse,
Madison, WI.
I’ve always felt like race is a simpler issue than we as humans like to make it. Why can’t everybody love everybody? Have you ever seen a real young kid discriminate? The picture is my best friend of all time and I when he visited me this summer; he lives in Chicago and that’s the only time I get to see him. Race has never meant anything to us, we’re just brothers.
Dealing with race is difficult, yes
Rilajah,
Philadelphia, PA.
Race conversation is hard; do it
R.E.A.L. Talk,
High Tech Middle Media Arts,
7th Grade Trailblazer
Growing up I never encountered racism. I use to think everyone had the privilege to do anything they like such as going to the same restaurant or going to the movies. What I know now is that is wasn’t like that. Our history has shown that we have segregated people based their color of skin. Yes, it has gotten better but we can still improve. We can do this by if you see someone being racist or being mean tell them stop and tell why it is so bad to be racist.
Many people have died through racism in our world.
Race is a fake thing. It is not real. People just made you think that is is real. There is one race and it is human. According to the Gilder Lehram Institute of American History, “10.5 million slaves die in the world. From about 1526 to 1867, 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in American. The decade 1821 to 1830 still saw over 80,000 people a year leaving Africa in slave ships.The average cost of a slave in America in 1850 was about $400,about $12,000 in today’s money. Although slavery is no longer legal anywhere in the world, human trafficking remains an international problem and an estimated 25-40 million people are living in illegal slavery today.” Race was a man-made idea to separate blacks and whites and throughout history, so many people have died through racism in our world. Race is a fake thing that is not real.
Hard to be the first on
Secundra Beasley,
Submitted via Twitter: @letbeasley
#TheRaceCardProject #ShiningALight
Interesting sad mean freedoms hard annoying
Forster Goodrich,
Lyne, NH.
Black family history hard to uncover
Chadwick Campbell
Berkeley, CA
Being black and from Louisiana, searching for my family past my great grandparents is very difficult. Finding people who were, literally, not legal citizens of this country is a very difficult endeavor.
Mixed Race Marriages are very hard
Vicki
Dallas, TX
I’m half Korean and Half White. As I grew up in an environment where I saw my parents overcome language and cultural barriers, in addition to the normal everyday marriage issues. When I was a kid, i didn’t think anything of it and thought that everyone had parents who would argue about why my dad’s mother would make ignorant comments about Asians to my mom. But they somehow made it work and has been married 30+ years. However, I saw many of their friends in Bi-cultural (which is different from bi-racial) marriages eventually get divorces. I didn’t think anything about it until some older Korean lady asked me about my parents and I said that they were still married and seem pretty happy. Her response to me was of something like.. “really.. they are still married” as if it wasn’t something she saw before.
As an adult, I have dated people of different racial/cultural background because there’s no dating website for those “half korean and white” people. And I have grown to admire how much my parents have to work to keep their marriage together. They had to resolve relationship issues that are universal to everyone, but also many unforeseen issue that may relate to cultural norms and expectation. I know that my future marriage will be hard because I’ll be carrying cultural issues and norms that non- biracial Asian people just won’t understand. Its kind of funny but my sister (who is biracial) finally found someone who related to her cultural/racial background and he was Hmong. A group of people who feel connected to their culture but not quite anymore since they don’t have a “home country” anymore because they were exiled. I also have been in a long term relationship with an India who grew up in the Middle East, who doesn’t quite feel “Indian” but not quite ” Middle Eastern.” So I’m not surprised by the type of people my sisters and I are pulled too.. people who feel the same as us in many ways. Yet, I know that we are still going struggle with issues that non-mixed raced marriages don’t have to deal with.
