CHANGE COMES FROM DEEP WITHIN YOURSELF!!
Danielle Rosati, Hauppauge, NY. I am tired of being blamed for blacks feeling not good enough. If you feel a certain way it’s within yourself....
I cannot choose just one race
Jade Pritchett, Port St. Lucie, FL. Growing up, I never understood how I was supposed to chose a bubble, check a box, pick one race....
It’s been centuries; get over it.
Tiffany Barta, Bemidji, MN. I’m honestly tired of indigenous people always saying, “YOU took OUR land!” Oh, really? I took your land? I personally had...
Ignorant thoughts lead to immoral actions
Elizabeth Adams, Manilus, NY. Student ’16 “Racial Profiling”
This project gives racism more power
Brandon Aspen, CO The purpose of saying something racist is to invoke. By allowing people to express that they were hurt by these words gives...
The White Girl: curious, ignorant, ashamed
Rebeca Osborn Ambridge, PA I grew up in largely white, upper-middle-class suburbs, but as a social outcast for different reasons, somehow most of my best...
I am color-blind or willfully blind?
Brian Phillips San Jose, CA Could I be that ignorant of the nature of race in this country that I don’t see color? Or perhaps...
“You’re just ignorant” she countered back
Lane Gans Maplewood, MN A retort spoken by Ashley De Grande, a 1st grader at the time when another 1st grader told her they’ve never...
Encouraging ignorant questions promotes understanding difference.
Zak Forde Morris, MN I do not mean to use “ignorant,” in the overused negatively-charged sense, but rather in the abstracted dictionary definition of the...
