Don’t be so sure you’re right
Elaine Duffy, Shakopee, MN Thank you for the broad scope of views presented. All learning is good
I’m finally learning, I am powerful.
Alexandra Rosas, Milwaukee, WI. After a lifetime of wishing I could be accepted and trying to be anything except who I AM, to fit in,...
Not wanting to deny my roots
Laura, Red bank, NJ. Let me just start by saying that racial forms are the death of me. I keep clicking back and forth between...
I’m a recovering racist, still learning.
Marnie Singer, Fremont, CA. I used to think I wasn’t racist; but when I joined Transcendence Gospel Choir and was accepted and loved, I realized...
All white childhood, now I’m learning.
Laura Haney, Fordland, MO Growing up in rural MO there were no black people. I never heard a racist remark growing up, I never heard...
My child’s not your Learning Experience.
Beth Curren, Bethesda, MD We are a bi-racial family and have experienced the comments of others since the day we brought our child home from...
Awareness: ONLY the FIRST BIG step
Yzolde Chepokas, Eden Prairie, MN. Going through this process of learning about race, racism, culture, multiculturalism, diversity, and so on, I have come to the...
I am richer, because of learning.
Robin Sluzas, Chicago, IL I am a senior citizen. As a new college junior, I took a History of Radicalism class at the University of...
Loving another human without judgement.
Philip Harding, Chesterfield, MO. Let’s build communities that are strong. Let’s have dialogues. Let’s become each other, let there be empathy, learning and understanding. Break...
Learning and living are not schooling.
Laura Reeder, Boston, MA. I teach teachers. I am a teacher. I am exhausted by the confusion that we perpetuate about who deserves to learn...
Contrived for power, superiority, riches – dehumanizing.
Carol Wenger, New Holland, PA. As a white woman, I’ve been learning, relating, and waking up to an understanding that I’ve been complacent in my...
Child of deaf mother, hearing world.
Heather, Fishers, IN If you have never heard about deaf culture, please go and read about it. Growing up the oldest child of a deaf...
Race doesn’t determine my capability
Shanelle Smith, Richmond, CA. Aspen X Sometimes I feel that at school, students that are non black just assume that I’m not doing as well...
Just an average, boring white guy.
Bradley Hogan, College Park, MD. I’m learning to recognize privilege and want to do what I can to even the playing field
Ignorance breeds isolation, learning creates community
Reva Friedman, Overland Park, KS. We live in our comfy, constrained, psychic silos. My mission as a teacher educator is to create opportunities for my...
