My dream one race human race
Anthony P. Larson,
Phoenix, AZ.
I think my six words speak for themselves. We are all children if the same God .
Yes, I’m Racist. The HUMAN Race
Charlie Chapman,
Spokane, WA.
SFCC Student
One race mixed heritage race won
Mary Ann Morano,
Los Angeles, CA.
There is only one race; the human race.
I said human, they said white.
Ida W.
USA
In elementary school when they asked ‘race’ on forms I filled out ‘Human” because I am a member of the human race! The teacher erased by answer and had me write ‘white’, I told her that ‘white was a color, not a person. She thought I could not have been more wrong.
Human race, only race that matters
Vincent Antonino
Fountain Hills, AZ
My wife and I have different color skin. We get racism sometimes. But what I tell our kids is that there is only one true race, the human race. Everything else is just noise.
News Flash People, Race isn’t real
Tim Daugherty
Mount Pleasant, MI
I think it’s time to stop using the word race to describe ethnic heritage.
NPR should spearhead this movement away from a word that (no longer) doesn’t have any real meaning.
This is just one of hundreds of papers published since the human genome mapping was completed.
We are truly ONE RACE the human Race.
Race’ and the Human Genome Project: constructions of scientific legitimacy
Only one race – the Human Race.
Barbara Dean
Great Barrington, MA
This is such a painful subject for so many people, but I believe to my core that there really is only one race, and that someday we will get beyond all the conflict, misunderstandings, racism, and pain and realize that we truly are brothers and sisters.
There’s one race: the human race
Anonymous
Chadbourne Residential College
My skin is BROWN not black.
Twanna Robinson
Thomasville, NC
In Sunday school one morning, a new child asked me why my skin was so dark. I told her it was because I am a black person. She looked at me for a minute and said nothing else to me for the rest of the hour. When her mother, picked her up, she said to her mother “Mommy, that grownup doesn’t know her colors. She doesn’t know that her skin is brown not black.” Simple but actually true. Had me really think about race and how I identified myself based on other’s definitions. I am a BROWN American who is part of the Human Race. I don’t deny my heritage, whatever that may be (not all brown people will have a Roots moment). From this point on, I will make an effort to avoid checking Black or African-American for my race and simply check other. If given the option, I’ll even write Brown Human and dare someone to correct me because I really do know my colors.
My race is human. Yours, too.
Nixi Chesnavich
Pittsburgh, PA
I was raised by a racist. My grandfather had a bias against everyone who wasn’t exactly like him. Even as a young child, I could see that the stereotypes he tried to instill in me were simplistic and dehumanizing. I chose not to hate. I chose to see all people as kin to me, all members of the human race above all others. I choose to judge people based on what is inside them, on the content of their character, as Dr. King so aptly phrased it. Everyone deserves an equal seat at the table, even those racists who recognize their error and seek forgivenness. To refuse a chance at redemption only perpetuates the division. All men are brothers, all women are sisters, and all must be welcomed home. It isn’t a zero sum game. We can all have more and be better by being better to one another. Strife over superficialities can only diminish us all.
Asked my race, I say “human”.
Jeff Byrum
Asheville, NC
I can’t remember where I first heard this, but now, whenever I’m asked for my race, my answer is “human.” When it’s a phone survey, the response is usually delight.
From 3.7 billion miles out, earth appears in a famous photograph taken by Voyager I as pale blue dot.
