I am proud of my people.
Cristina Brooklyn, NY Despite the constant wall we’re pushing up against, we stand proud, strong, and rich.
Beautiful, Universal, Magnificent, Individuals as ONE!
David E. Spence NYC, nY A concept I made and copyrighted this for a children’s book and character I made for my daughter 23 or...
I witness and rewitness history
Melissa Johnson Brooklyn, NY With the continual killing and imprisoning, marginalization and exploitation of the black individual–blackness as an identity is loved and hated all...
I’ll stop committing crimes… After you.?!
Charles Walton Brooklyn, NY For hypocrites who with one track minds who insist that all blacks need to do to get their comeuppance is to...
I judge actions regardless of looks
Nick Casey Saratoga Springs, NY I grew up in upstate NY. I was raised by my grandparents who have passed. My Mother was in the...
Right when I almost forget: Race
Muderi Aradi Poughkeepsie, NY Race to me is how authorities in an environment define aesthetic population differences, in ignorance to the vast continuum of intermediates...
Individual or systemic, racism always matters.
Giselle Sanchez Huerta Poughkeepsie, NY Race is a concept that continues privilege, structural power, and inequitable distribution of resources based on phenotypes/ sets of observable...
Pessimistic poster child for post-racial promise
Anonymous Brooklyn, NY Biracial (white and Asian). Partnered with a white man from rural West Virginia. We don’t experience much (if any) hostility. I’m told...
Peace power love youth elder God
Kathy Lynn Gueye New York City, NY Queens Without the elder there is no youth without the youth there is no future….who is holding the...
My JHS bore banner Quality Integrated Education
Bruce Rosen New York City, NY Manhattan The 3 words together would be inconceivable today & not for the right reasons
My name is being made fun of?
Bang Ang New York, NY People often make jokes about my name. They would ask “did your parents drop pots and pans or something?” or...
A complex and ridiculous social construct
Dana Bryant, New York, NY. Case in Point: Walter White, Director of the NAACP from 1931-1955 . The man had about 1/27th percent black blood...
White people are human beings too
John Locke New York, NY I know it may not seem like it from all the crazy racist rhetoric directed against us. It’s okay to...
I always created a new box to check
Ranya New York City, NY A teen during 9/11… The only now officially identified as “Arab,” teen in my entire school. Before I was looked...
