Not All Black Girls Are Loud
Skyler Craighead, Laplace, LA I chose the six words, “Not all Black girls are loud,” because this statement represents a common stereotype that many Black...
Loud family passionate about Family & Food
Ryan Sumner, College Park, MD. Italians are often seen as stereotypically loud and have a passion for food. My family falls into these stereotypes
What is a mad black woman
Lashauna Vaughn Warren, MI What is a mad black woman people look at it being loud, angry, violet but I think it is misunderstood for...
Too Loud, Yet Still Not Heard
Siera Adams, Conyers, GA I live in a country that stereotypes black women, like myself, as “loud”. If I laugh, it’s too loud. If I...
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...
You’re scared, so I’ll act different
Anonymous, Mechanicsburg, VA. It is hard not to be myself to please someone else who does not really care about me at all. I hate...
Black Is Just An Insecure Label
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer To me race is just a made up way to put people in groups, based...
Racism definitely exists for a reason
Johnson, USA. I am sick to death of people trying to pretend like there aren’t legitimate reasons for racism. Not always, but they are there....
“Are you Irish?” I don’t know.
Andee Bateman, Noblesville, IN. As an adoptee with flaming red hair, I was asked this question frequently. I found out at 47 that I am...
HORRIBLE, ROUGH, UNFAIR, INTENSE, FREE, LOUD
Jane Goodrich, Lyne, NH. I chose my words because that’s what I thought it was, Black people wanted freedom, but the police hurt them because...
Time to use my “white” voice
Susan Cissoko Provo, UT In order to be as professional as I can be in the work place I feel I have to put my...
