Integration ended my neighborhood’s block party.
Shoshana Hoose Portland, OR I grew up in an all-white neighborhood in Newington, Ct. My mother’s best friend, a Quaker, and her husband sold their...
No, I don’t need a translator.
Kelly Eugene, OR Since we are in the states, why not assume first that I speak English?
Ambiguously different from everyone else. Stereotypes.
Jessica Winfrey Portland, OR I am biracial and bicultural and was educated for the first 6 years in a very diverse school on an air...
Let’s forget race; train and educate.
Magda Schay Camp Sherman, OR I am an immigrant to USA and because my parents were educated and saw to it that their children are...
Raised mixed, married mixed, had mixed.
Alisha Partlow Eugene, OR My mother is red haired, blue eyed Danish/German. My father, dark haired, brown eyed Mexican. I married a man whose biological...
Our tears, all the same color.
Jasper LaFortune Corvallis, OR I don’t know what it’s like to be black, or Mexican, or mixed race, or anything but the collection of molecules...
You look like a leprechaun! Ouch.
Sue Russell Eugene, OR It’s not OK for you to tell me I look like a leprechaun. WTF.
Frustrated, Aggravated, Discouraged by Black Stereotypes
Kern, Seattle, OR. Collected from The Race Card Project, On Location: Seattle Community Colleges With each passing decade (now 5 of them)I have reflected on...
They will never let you forget.
John Johnson Portland, OR They will never let you forget you are black. I doesn’t matter where you go or what you do. First and...
Put your color aside; think bigger.
Karen Schneider Eugene, OR The University of Oregon Because I don’t “see color” I feel I must be naive or shallow.
