Hope my children will speak Spanish
Sandra Aguilar-Rodríguez, Bethlehem, PA. I am Mexican, I speak English, French and Spanish. I have a PhD in History, but still I find it difficult...
I am more than my race
Craig G., Philadelphia, PA. I just want to be judged on what is on the inside and not how I look on the outside.
Privilege should be the ‘Zero line’
Taylor Johnson, Glen Mills, PA. I see privilege as an opportunity to make change and I would like to see it break out of the...
Without your color, who are you?
Reid Pickett, Swarthmore, PA. Not in a “we are all the same sense” but just individually…
“George Washington was white, you’re black.”
Aaron David Snipe, Falls Church, VA. It was one day before the 4th of July parade at the summer camp I had attended each summer...
First mistake was bringing the Negro
H. Ulfheim, Erie, PA. The first mistake was bringing the negro to America. The next mistake was making him a slave and giving him a...
Scandinasican: Scandinavian, Asian, American – where’s home?
AD Hammershaimb Radnor, PA My siblings see it as belonging everywhere; I see it as belonging nowhere. In Denmark, Danes see me as Filipino-American. In...
The French pilot said, “You’re American”!
Raymond R. Rochester III, Elkins Park, PA. It was 1981, me being 31 years old … I was on my way to Paris, France …...
You’re going to prom with him?
Katie Bowles Linfield, PA I grew up in a conservative white Catholic/Christian family that tends to be very narrow-minded, especially in the older generations. I...
My Race: Dry Erase Board Edition.
Carly, Philadelphia, PA. I don’t think their parents, their media, their schools, their society, told them it was rude to write on other people’s identities...
Black bodies swinging on poplar trees
Kyetheus Monteiro, California, PA. To be young, gifted and Black!
Race: A tightly tangled, knotted business
Catherine House Philadelphia, PA Racism is a terrible, complicated knot that some have tried to improve through generations. Abolitionists and the four civil rights workers...
My skin color isn’t my culture
Andrew Beer, Philadelphia, PA. As a white male, I am lumped together with the rest of white America, but white isn’t a culture. My family...
