People use pigment to write stories.
Corazon Johnston New Orleans, LA Aspen X Beyond the fact that ink is pigment we use to write on paper, skin color creates circumstances of...
Being Black is beautiful, even when (no one else thinks so)
Keriana Rogers, New Orleans, LA Growing up, understanding that my black was beautiful no matter the circumstances was hard. Now that I’m older I embrace...
Latinx didn’t come to steal job
Jeysi Guillen, New Orleans, LA Aspen X The stereotypes that a lot of people have about Latinx in America.
People of Quality Respect Race Equality
Saheba Cuccia, New Orleans, LA. Aspen X Adopted and raised in the South, I have seen and heard of the racial barriers that some people...
Refuse to follow the racial constructs.
Racquel Picou, New Orleans, LA. Aspen X To me race is just a social and political construct that is very binding. A reason for humans...
You Talk Like A White Girl
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...
Black. Good hair? Indian in your family?
Nicole, New Orleans, LA. Black women are so obsessed with their hair that it can totally consume their life… “I can’t get in the pool...
A misunderstood southern white jew
Benjamin Beadle, New Orleans, LA I was born and raised in Louisiana. I was raised a Christian on my father’s side and Jewish on my...
Being Black doesn’t mean I’m dumb
Michelle Snowden, New Orleans, LA Nursing Major at Dillard University
Being Black doesn’t mean I’m ghetto
Reagan Farmer, New Orleans, LA p>My school is Dillard University
You don’t want truth? Too bad.
Sammy Miller, New Orleans, LA It’s interesting that people say they want equality. What they really want is to demean. I hear people say that...
I’m An Individual NOT A Color!
Nadra Enzi, New Orleans, LA. Anyone with eyes can see that I’m a dark Black man. That and a couple dollars might buy you a...
I’m tired of Black Lives Matter (BLM)!
Chris Rochambeau, Seattle, WA I am ethnically “mixed”, (born in New Orleans – Spanish Creole, Cajun French and Choctaw ), but appear Anglo. I am,...
All the Mexicans here are Black.
Jessica Laursen San Diego, CA to New Orleans, LA When moving from San Diego to New Orleans as a teenager I realized the jobs held...
Saudi born, ethnically Indian, I’m American.
Akul Nishawala New Orleans, LA This is usually the narrative of the story that answers the question, “Where are you from?” When I say I...
