Shouldn’t matter in the casting room
Alison J McCarron, Durham, NH If you can get the job done successfully, truthfully and respectfully, it shouldn’t matter where you come from. Equity says...
We, as people, are all different
Hannah Balfour, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Race is a social construction created to enhance white supremacy and segregation. We as humans are...
We are all the same people.
Brooke McMahon, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH When I was growing up I lived on a boarding school campus. I grew up looking...
Growing up as the minority in my elementary school.
Allison Silva, Durham, NH I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts in a good neighborhood but schooling in Boston is a little bit different. To choose...
Race; an arbitrary excuse for segregation.
Trisha Gaulin, The University of New Hampshire, Milton, NH We are all the same; humans beings. We all have the same blood. Race is just...
We are different, but the same.
Taylor, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH I chose these six words as my submission because every person is unique and different in their...
I exist and therefore I am
Nicole, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Race is a social construct, a learned trait.
Sorry, you said you’re what? Lao?
Ponmani Vongsay, Durham, NH Every-time I tell someone I’m Lao they have no idea what I mean by that. I always have to explain that...
Places where race does not exist
Cam Carbone, Durham, NH Here, I was lucky enough to be apart of a Polar Research Project aboard the USCGC Healy Icebreaker. This trip took...
Afraid to offend. Afraid of embarrassment.
Sallie Vroom, Hampton, NH. My six words reflect my perspective as a white woman who wants to expand her social circle to include more people...
I always wanted to be black
Angela, Manchester, NH. Since I was a small child, I have thought black people were more beautiful, more brave, more…everything than whites. I am white...
Will you still talk to me?
Susan Duncan, Bristol, NH. When I was in the fourth grade, my family moved from Concord, North Carolina, to Leaksville (now Eden), North Carolina. Our...
White guy can’t walk in’your shoes
Jay Grabow, Omaha, NH. I’m a 52 year old white guy, living in middle class suburbs. Yeah, I’ve struggled to get where I am in...
