I’ll embrace who I am always
Brittany Sanchez, Frederick, MD My background has a large impact on the type of person I am today. Through my family and culture I motivated...
Keep loving people without ethnicity
Dora Stephani R. Gonsalves, Silver Spring, MD Ethnicity never describe anyone that how he/she is! Racism can make a separation between a human. Sometimes it...
School integration enriched my white life.
Cynthia Waszak Geary, Baltimore, MD. I grew up in Durham, NC and attended Hillside High School as part of the first court ordered desegregation plan...
Don’t worry honey, he’ll brown up.
Jen, Bowie, MD. My husband (African American) and I (Caucasian) took our son to his one month doctor appointment. The nurse asked us if he...
I’m who I say I am!
Christina Martinez-Williams. Seat Pleasant, MD. My mother is German and English, at least third generation American born, and my father is Cuban, first generation born....
Trending new minority to hate: whites
Bev Parisi, Greenbelt, MD My mother’s family was told “get out Wop,” because they’re Italian. As I grew up I was called a “Christ-killer” and...
Identity Thief Blasian Sensation Lifelong Educator
Jennifer Wong Cernak, Chester, MD. I have been listening to your race-card stories for a long time and heard the topic of mixed race come...
Grateful for the help today
I recently lost my fiancée of 6 years in an accident at work. I am very grateful for the help because funds are really low...
Puerto Rico’s Identity Crisis Defines Me.
Isabel Nicole Otero Hernandez, Silver Spring, MD. I was born in Puerto Rico to a Cuban Mother and a Puerto Rican Father. The summer I...
Learn from History, Change the Future
Jerry, Leonardtown, MD Embrace the good and bad about our Country so we can make it a more perfect Union.
No one box is correct.
David Kung, St. Mary’s City, MD. In 2000 when I filled out my census card and was finally allowed to (correctly) check more than one...
