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Black Little Mermaid steals the show.
Sarah Mutombo, Louisville, KY. I attend Louisville Collegiate school, and in my 8th grade year I participated in middle school Musical: The Little Mermaid, Jr....
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Sarah Mutombo, Louisville, KY. I attend Louisville Collegiate school, and in my 8th grade year I participated in middle school Musical: The Little Mermaid, Jr....
Kasey Nichols, Clemmons, NC. I’ve known I’ve been adopted since I can remember and never questioned my ethnicity until I reached middle school age because...
Ellis Clark, Spain. As a seventeen-year-old black male, my view to race has been cushioned by growing up in a comfortable, yet politically aware household....
Aaliyah Gaskins, New Orleans, LA I chose these 6-words because growing up I was always told I talked differently and had my blackness questioned multiple...
Josie H Australia I am a Catholic Indian. The middle school I went to was not Catholic, and when I graduated into high school (which...
Betsy F, Minneapolis, MN p>I grew up wishing I was white. I was raised to hate my culture, my eyes, my language, and my background....
Elizabeth James Sugar Land, TX I wasn’t really aware of this till I became older, yea my mom looked different than I and pretty much...
Helen Zhang, Camarillo, CA. When I was in middle school, I noticed that my classmates tended to form “cliques” with people of the same ethnicity....
Charles Stremel, Mission Viejo, CA To preface, I am white, I’ve grown up well-off and never really had to worry too much about things. My...
Timena Mano, Northern CA. Since I was a young child, one thing I knew for sure was that I was Samoan. I am Polynesian but...
Nicholas Le, Sanger, CA. Since im Asian people always say im really good at math. Some people ask me if I can do their homework....
Ra’Niqua Ball, Shreveport, LA. I am constantly being asked why I am so short. I can’t help that I’m the short one. All through middle...
Hilary Salazar, McAllen, TX. I attended a middle school with only seven Hispanics/Latinos. One day during 2nd period, the librarian called all seven of us...
Lauren, Silver Spring, MD. This was a term that was often used to describe me during my middle school days, it always hurtful to hear...
Nick Lakewood, CO Personally, my experience with racism hasn’t been very bad, Growing up in this time period, my generation has come to accept the...
Robert De Dios, Sanger, CA. I am a high school student who use to get the ” oh you were born here in America?” Back...
Nathalie Barahona, Kearns, UT. For many years throughout my middle school and high school years as I was growing I felt as though many of...
Brad Crump, Floral Park, NY. As a Presbyterian Pastor I serve a diverse congregation (Guyanese, Jamaican, Black, White). As a teacher I work for a...