A proud American, unwanted in America…
Joseph A Flores, Roswell, NM The scion of pre-Chicano era parents who believed assimilation into the American culture was the key to success. My English...
Managed education despite resistance. Still uncertified.
Sunny G. Sampson, Albuquerque, NM. I managed to obtain one degree, still paying for it. Have attempted two other degrees. The debt and the education...
Where are you from? No, really
Michael Kenji Yamasaki, Rio Rancho, NM. OBSERVATIONS – Where are you from? No really … Where are you from? I can relate to Mr. Marc...
Anglo interloper newcomer outsider awkward minority
Laurie Mitchell Dunn Taos, NM In my northern NM community, Native Americans have been here for over 1,000 years and Hispanics for 400 years. Anglos...
What are you…I can’t tell?
Nichole Rogers, Albuquerque, NM We love to put people in categories and since I don’t visually fit easily into just one category I get asked...
He put pickles in my pancakes.
Jeannette Chavez Albuquerque, NM It was the early 70′s in the Texas panhandle. On a road trip we stopped at a diner to eat. He...
Taunted guero: friends and foes alike
Ken Romig, Albuquerque, NM. There is racial and cultural insensitivities in everyone.
The most divisive word on Earth!
Wali Shakur, Santa Fe, NM. Disband all use of the word race (and all of it’s uses) and most economic models will collapse. Peace.
White woman black restroom Frozen
Sylvia Anderson Albuquerque, NM Raised in Detroit, parents liberal, family on both sides of civil war. Grandfather said “The south likes the black man and...
Never got sh** for being white
Tim Murphy, Sandia Park, NM White people take this for granted, I hope to live to the day ALL races could say this. At 66,...
White dude, Asian wife. Stereotype away.
Chuck, Albuquerque, NM People often say things like “Oh he must have a fetish for Asians” or “She must be looking for a Green Card”...
Race is appearance not my identity.
Jennifer Evans, Albuquerque, NM So often people bring race in as a deep part of someone’s identity or use it as a reason for their...
My name is Louis not Poncho
Louis Garduno, Ramah, NM Racism has been a fluid reality in my life as long as I can remember. It’s like dodging bullets but with...
I didn’t think it was real!
Toya James, Albuquerque, NM. I am biracial (Black/White) and born in Cleveland in 1959. By “it” I mean race. I thought more people knew race...
Being called sassy is not complementary.
Starr, Albuquerque, NM. Black women are often characterized as sassy which I take as an insult. The root of sassy is sass or to balk,...
Not Member of Your White Club
Britt Verstegen, Socorro, NM. I grew up as a blonde, blue-eyed kid in an interracial family within a racially diverse neighborhood of inner-city Detroit. My...
