We need each-other; tribe, tongue, nation.
Stephen Karst, Overland Park, KS What if we worked to recognize the dignity in one another? What would it look like to celebrate our different...
Before me, six Native nations here.
Minal Parekh, Erie, CO. I recently participated in a “cultural competency” exercise as part of a volunteer training. I could not answer the question about...
Χιος to Hughes…we’re all immigrants
Patricia Hughes, Lake Arrowhead, CA. My father’s father took the long route of immigration from Greece during the political upheavals occurring in the early part...
Blood. Sweat. Tears. Soil to Skyscraper.
Jason Williams, Nashville, TN. Take pride in this great nation, remember those who built it.
We are connected, all of us
Kelly White, Frisco, TX I am a white woman who people mistake as conservative. A simple way for me to think about the race issues...
Last Black Man Standing In SanFrancisco
Stephen Grove Malloy, San Francisco, CA. Would love to contribute my experience here in the Nation’s Wealthiest and Progressive City…one would think it were Shangrila...
Turning away costs us almost everything
Jessica H, Seattle, WA. A society which chooses to live with such oppression and misery becomes a society without trust or hope: a nation of...
Race Baiters Are Destroying Our Country
Kimberlee Collins, Gulf Shores, AL. We as a nation of individuals need to be supportive of one another. Each of us are unique and yet...
Slavery is our original national sin.
Lynn Levine, Prescott Valley, AZ Our national origins in slavery constantly limit us in terms of the progress we can make towards a just society....
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...
I am so very, very ashamed.
Mark Allen Kleiman Venice, CA As a student activist back in the day, I fought de facto segregation. It breaks my heart to see how...
The individual issue turns to collective
Enrique Amigon Newark, NJ All individual problems are universal problems, reform for one nation is the push for another nation to act.
Nation built on racial discrimination, exclusion
Georgia Ann Arbor, MI Think about it. The building of this country was facilitated by making it ok to destroy or enslave someone who was...
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...
Stop Thinking; Black. Start Thinking; Human.
Jim Wallin Lebanon, PA We won’t get “over” race until blacks stop looking for racism. Trust me, you don’t have to look. Saying someone is...
