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CHANGE COMES FROM DEEP WITHIN YOURSELF!!

December 1, 2015December 1, 2015 arrested, change, cops, customer, Danielle Rosati, deep, double standard, Harlem, Hauppauge, ignorant, judge, kracker, NY, police, profiled, Rap, slaves, stereotype, thug, treatment, within

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. And only you can change that.

I’ve been pulled over for no reason !! Arrested .. I have felonies .. I’ve been hit and beaten by cops!! You want equal rights but special treatment ??!! It don’t go that way!!! If u walk in a black neighborhood you know you’re in a black neighborhood! Why? Cause it’s filthy and there’s spray paint all over buildings!

Rappers who are predominantly black rap about being a thug, gang banging, bi***es, drugs, and 22’s!! And then wonder why your profiled ?!! COME ON!! You wanna be treated a certain way act a certain way. I used to act like a thug too and it got me arrested and down a wrong path. Once I changed my life changed. It comes from within.

I also went to Harlem near 141st and Lenox. Which is mostly black. And guess what .. ? I was first in line and when the lady who was black came to the register she helped everyone else behind me who was black and would not take my order !!!! Don’t f***ing tell me white people are the only racists in this world!!! Take a good look within yourself. And stop making it seem like it’s only black people that are struggling!!! If I’m walking in a black neighborhood I gotta worry a lot more then any black person walking in a white neighborhood. I didn’t own any slaves. And neither did my mother or her mother before that and so on and so on!! It’s the past!! Leave it in the past. None of the black youth today were slaves either!! Keep calling each other n***** and see how much respect you get! U don’t see white people calling one another kracker!! Why? Case it’s ignorant to do so!!!!!!!!

I cannot choose just one race

April 7, 2015 bubble, check the box, choose, FL, heritage, identify, ignorant, Jade Pritchett, multiracial, pick, Port St. Lucie, proud, 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. I am multiracial, and proud of it. Teachers would tell me to choose the one that I “feel”. Does that mean that I can’t feel them all? When I grew up, and went to get a drivers license, they said if I have any African American in me I have to choose that. How can someone tell me that I have to choose one, identify with one, be one? It’s ignorant to think that every single part of my racial heritage doesn’t have an impact on me, and that someone else gets to decide that we have to ignore a part of ourselves.

It’s been centuries; get over it.

February 5, 2015February 5, 2015 Bemidji, get over it, ignorant, indigenous, MN, Tiffany Barta, YOU took OUR land!

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 nothing to do with that. You must be referring to my ancestors, who weren’t even in this country at the time. Who’s ignorant now?

Ignorant thoughts lead to immoral actions

January 12, 2015 Elizabeth Adams, ignorant, immoral, Manlius, NY, racial profiling, student, Syracuse, thoughts, USA

Elizabeth Adams,
Manilus, NY.

Student ’16

“Racial Profiling”

This project gives racism more power

July 8, 2014July 8, 2014 Aspen, Brandon, CO, empower, hurt, ignorant, Power, project, racism

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 them (words) more power. The more we try to educate to not say these things because they hurt the more we lose traction in this battle. We need to teach people to be strong and not let ignorant or uneducated people hurt them. Stop saying what not to do and start teaching what to do. Only you can hurt yourself, others can say as much as they want and it will only hurt or offend you as much as you let it. Start empowering people to be strong individuals rather than giving these feelings, words, or racist people more power than they should have by broadcasting how much they hurt.

Lack of exposure makes me ignorant

December 10, 2013 exposure, ignorant, Starla

Starla
OR

The White Girl: curious, ignorant, ashamed

October 18, 2013 Ambridge, ashamed, biracial, ignorant, middle class, non-white, outcast, PA, Rebeca Osborn, suburbs, upper class, White girl

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 friends through life have been non-white or biracial. It’s taken me a long time to learn to just ask questions of people who are different from me, and accept that if I look like an a**hole, at least I’ll learn something.

I am color-blind or willfully blind?

October 2, 2013 Brian Phillips, CA, color-blind, ignorant, progress, San Jose

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 it is a sign of progress. Or maybe I’m just kidding myself and oblivious to my own surroundings.

How ignorant and selfish I’ve been

April 10, 2013 CA, ignorant, Jason Young, Long Beach, selfish

Jason Young
Long Beach, CA

“You’re just ignorant” she countered back

December 6, 2012March 5, 2013 Black, countered, ignorant, Lane Gans, Maplewood, MN

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 had blacks in their school and don’t want them now.

Encouraging ignorant questions promotes understanding difference.

October 2, 2012March 5, 2013 conversations, differences, ignorant, MN, Morris, questions, Unniversity of Minnesota, Zak Forde

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 term, i.e. “lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact” (dictionary.com). Those who do not understand may want to, but may not know how to ask the question without causing what they at least perceive would be great offense, inadvertently leading them to “live on in ignorance” as one friend with such a question recently explained. If people feel safe to ask these questions, a greater consciousness of experiential difference based off of social categories such as race has a chance to take root, which is extremely important to conversations about race in the United States today.