Brian Jones Maplewood, NJ I am often the only person of color in the room, and always have been. Except when I went to Howard U. Love the project – very powerful!!
Brian Jones Maplewood, NJ I am often the only person of color in the room, and always have been. Except when I went to Howard U. Love the project – very powerful!!
Judy Kravitz Scotch Plains, NJ Aspen Ideas Festival
Paul Alessi Cherry Hill, NJ My friend is a black man and he made this remark, that any time he enters a restaurant he feels like everyone is looking at him. I have noticed that he is right.
Roosevelt J Abrams Jr. Orange, NJ
Darrell Penn Plainsboro, NJ
Kristy Straub Woodberry Heights, NJ It has ALWAYS annoyed me (since I can remember) when people say “I don’t see color” in an effort to demonstrate their acceptance/tolerance of those different from themselves…… but how offensive that actually is: “I refuse to acknowledge where you come from because our differences may cause tension so I […]
Steve Titterton Lindenwold, NJ I’m white, and the father of two Asian children. Went into that thinking that race was irrelevant if I thought so, the social workers told me that I was wrong, and they were right. My card is about how I was made aware of what it means to make assumptions about […]
Khemani G Orange, NJ It bothers me sometimes when I am filling something out and the race box says only African American when I am actually Afro-Caribbean. Although there is a difference between the two culturally I feel they are both united by the concept of blackness. Something that was once frowned upon but now […]
Ashley Castaneda Newark, NJ
Krystal Scott Bayoone, NJ This is the answer to the question I am asked weekly. I was asked this question as a child often. However now that I am a mother of two girls one who has lighter skin then I and one who is darker we are asked all the time. In the grocery […]
Kathlyn Newark, NJ
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Mary Palmer Manahawkin, NJ I am a white woman married to a white man. We are the parents of two biological sons and one adopted bi-racial daughter, all of them grown.
BA Walker Paterson, NJ Life’s not easy