Why the hyphen? American not enough?
Nick Keim Ellicott City, MD My original thoughts when hearing about the race card project are the six words written above. Then I started to...
Represent the right side of history
Carol G. Arnold, MD I want to be able to hold my head high when my grandchildren look at old pictures of this time!
No, I don’t understand your English.
Nidia Rivera, Hyattsville, MD. “NO I don’t understand English”, is a common phrase that I am used to hear almost everyday when I moved to...
Never let someone treat you badly
Keivin Bustillo Hernandez Brentwood, MD Many people think that it doesn’t matter how you are? the only thing that only matter is how you are...
“White,” Turkish husband, speak 2+ languages.
PHYLLIS HULL AKTURK Rockville, MD I check “other” for race because we are all just homo sapiens. Although Father was from Norman English+Dutch and Mother...
No, really honey. What are you?
Anthony Young Beltsville, MD My first business trip as a young professional turned out to be an immersion in issues of race and ethnic identity....
Light-skinned Jamaican that dosen’t speak Patois
Renee Wilmot-Graham Severn, MD Americans are surprised when I tell them my family is from Jamaica and even more surprised because I am fair skinned....
Don’t worry, white is STILL right.
AGHillery Upper Marlboro, MD In a “post-racial” era, race is as dominant a factor in people’s lives as it ever was. President Obama notwithstanding, white...
It hurts, but i will live.
Ana Lazo Hyattsvelle, MD Racism may hurt,as death itself, but it can not kill you, because we don’t live by that.
Powerful nations considerate you inferior, Africa.
Marie Makoue Hyattsville, MD At people’s sight Africa is seen as a undeveloped territory. I choose theses words because they emphasize developed countries’s opinions about...
Don’t cry. Mama loves your curls.
Hilary Roberts-King Baltimore, MD Children’s books and Sesame Street make multi-cultural living look so easy. Of course I want my daughters to be proud of...
Please fix your mixed child’s hair
Charles Hegeman Cheverly, MD All too often I see of bi-racial children with what would be best described as a birds nest on their head....
You go, she held her purse.
Michelle V. Rowley Adelphi, MD I was in my supermarket recently. I had just left the gym, dressed in my tights, Puma gym bag, iphone...
“We beat them fair and square.”
Elizabeth Koopman Cockeysville, MD These were the words spoken to me in 1994 by the president (now deceased) of the University of Maine at Machias...
My President is black, and white.
Kenneth L. Fisher Saint Michaels, MD My wife is white and I am black. I want my children to be Black AND white since they...
