Not all white conservatives are racists
Emily, Houston, TX. Many people complain about discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudices relating to race; and I am under no illusion that what they experience is...
Bicultural and Bilingual should be enough.
Megan Medrano, Houston, TX. Growing up Latina in south Texas, I have always been surrounded with rich culture. My home was filled with both the...
Where are all the basketball courts?
Candace Davis, Houston, TX Courts provided ways for us to meet, exercise, and also solve community issues. Kids could sell candy, adults met the love...
Every Hispanic Isn’t Always Hispanic Okay?
Mathew Rayne, Houston, TX. Once in awhile you go for a drive and see the people around you enjoying what there doing. Everyone is their...
Mexicans are like European gypsies, right?
Violet, Houston, TX p>As an Eastern European I am asked this question quite frequently.
Perceptions Equal Thoughts Equal Future Actions
Charles, Houston, TX Change your perceptions, You change your thinking, You change your thinking, You change your actions, You change your action, You change future..😉
Divisiveness planted to keep us distracted
Kelly O’Brien Pruitt, Houston, TX. I love living in a multicultural City. I love seeing different sizes and shapes and colors, different combinations of ethnic...
As powerful as the Red Sea
Andrea M, Houston, TX. Discrimination due to race is as powerful as the splitting of the Red Sea; splitting a society into many parts, when...
Reflections of Ethnicity, but Not Race?
Josie, Houston, TX Most of my life, I had not given much thought to my racial identity. I never really thought about myself as a...
How soft black hair is. . . surprise
Charlotte, Houston, TX. I grew up close to African Americans. They were guests in our home and people on the bus with us. I never...
TV people don’t look like us
Ana Artigas Houston, TX I am the child of an Italian-American mother and Spanish (from Spain) father, and I was born in Mexico. I am...
Lights flipped, pulled over, relax brother
JC Ousley Houston, TX In 1998 I bought a new red corvette despite my mother’s plea, she said the car was trouble for a black...
Not Asian, nor American, but Asian-American.
Margaret Lin, Houston, TX. Although ethnically Asian, I stick out like a sore thumb in Asia. When I visited China last summer, my mother told...
Drop the guilt, and become aware
Danyahel Norris, Houston, TX. When I have a conversation about race or racism with someone white, I tend to get a few common responses. One...
DO NOTHING AND NOTHING EVER CHANGES
Laurie Winchester, Houston, TX. Treat everyone and everything the way you want to be treated…..yes, it’s that simple.
Together we can do it better
Ben Tallcott, Houston, TX. My life has given me the experience of many cultures and races. I have learned that our differences create a wealth...
We have to get it together.
NIK BANNISTER Houston, TX Louisiana epitomizes how race and education interfere with opportunity, cultural identity and upward mobility.
