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Orphaned, Mother, Autism, Lover, Peaceful, Powerful

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 autism, Caitlin Church, Clinton, EICC, first generation, IA, mother, orphaned, peaceful, powerful

Caitlin Church,
Clinton, IA

I am a 29 year old 1st generation 1st year college student at EICC. I have overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and experienced more loss than most people my age. I don’t have very many people in my corner but I know my child and my amazing finance always will be. I have to be strong for her, she is a person with Autism so she needs me for more than an average child needs a parent, and will continue to need me in this capacity for the rest of my life. Life can be messy but it always has a way of working itself out.

I’m finally learning, I am powerful.

January 24, 2024January 24, 2024 #culturalworkout, accepted, Alexandra Rosas, fit in, learning, Milwaukee, powerful, strength, uniqueness, WI

Alexandra Rosas,
Milwaukee, WI.

After a lifetime of wishing I could be accepted and trying to be anything except who I AM, to fit in, I am finding, my strength is in my uniqueness. #culturalworkout

As powerful as the Red Sea

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 Andrea M., Houston, powerful, Red Sea, splitting society, TX

Andrea M,
Houston, TX.

Discrimination due to race is as powerful as the splitting of the Red Sea; splitting a society into many parts, when we were only meant to love as one.

A boombox can break down barriers

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 barriers, boombox, common, Evan Contreras, everyone, music, powerful, Puyallup, WA

Evan Contreras,
Puyallup, WA.

Music is powerful. Share it with everyone, and you may find more in common than you expected.

A voice is a powerful weapon.

November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 FL, Paige Sharrow, powerful, voice, weapon

Paige Sharrow,
FL.

I am glad they fear me.

January 11, 2018October 4, 2021 Black, cocky, Dravosburg, educate, Ernest LeonTyree Jr, fear, human, humble, military, motivators, PA, powerful, white

Ernest Leon Tyree Jr
Dravosburg, PA

After spending 12 years in the military I learned a lot about fear and the power it holds. One the most powerful motivators is fear which is unfortunate, that being said the person who holds the power has a great responsibility to know that people fear them and to act accordingly. Being cocky is not the answer, humble is the way to go. When people fear something they tend to try and kill it, the correct action is to make yourself strong and wise enough to understand that fear is the enemy and not the one standing in front of you. If you know you are feared it is your responsibility to educate people that there is no reason to fear you and that we are all basically equal as humans.

American overseas & black in America.

December 14, 2017December 13, 2017 activity, america, American, Black, Chicago, Formative Five, IL, Kevin Simpson, powerful, Tom Hoerr

Kevin Simpson,
Chicago, IL.

Powerful activity

Art in the face of racism

December 13, 2017December 13, 2017 art, Brooklyn, Christopher McBride, exhibit, musician, New York City, NY, powerful, racism

Christopher McBride
New York City, NY
Brooklyn

Seeing that exhibit really brought about a strong reaction emotionally from myself. As a musician, seeing the visual art side of things was really powerful.

Listen to the experiences of others

October 7, 2016October 7, 2016 CA, expierience, Oprah Winfrey, Pomona, powerful, Richard Bock, Rick DeBruyne, The Color of Fear, www.diversitytrainingfilms.com.

Rick DeBruyne,
Pomona, CA.

Streaming film available at www.diversitytrainingfilms.com. The Color of Fear, Edited by Richard Bock, The Color of Fear is a powerful movie examining closely the issue of racism. Considered by many to be the best film of its kind, exploring the conscious and unconscious behavior of racism. It has been seen by millions of people around the world and was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show

Still resonating to its powerful music!

June 6, 2015June 7, 2015 Abby London-Crawford, children, civil rights, music, New York City, NY, powerful, songs, teach, The Bronx

Abby London-Crawford
New York City, NY
The Bronx

I still teach the songs of the Civil Rights Movement to pass on its legacy to young children.

A fictitious category yet so powerful

May 1, 2015May 1, 2015 category, College of Saint Benedict, fiction, Manju Parikh, Minneapolis, MN, powerful

Manju Parikh
Minneapolis, MN

Loved your commencement speech at College of Saint Benedict in May 2014

Now we can talk about race

April 17, 2015April 17, 2015 election, Gary Seven, Nashville, Obama, powerful, Race, talk, TN

Gary Seven
Nashville, TN

All during the election season, conservatives were claiming that President Obama did nothing to unify the country about issues of race, (as if he were capable of, and was singularly responsible for doing so by himself.) Their claim was that he was the most divisive president in history when in fact that whole regrettable episode served to highlight their own inherent racism, especially within the tea party and Fox news, (which they would both quickly and ineptly deny.)
We’ve come a long way as a country…From this “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty“…to this…“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.“ I submit to you that we are forced to accept that there is both overt and covert racism in this country. Only then we can finally begin a discussion about something that does in fact exist, rather than desperately trying to deny something that is so powerful, as to insist that it is a figment of our collective imaginations.

I’m A Strong Powerfull Mexican Woman

March 28, 2015March 28, 2015 Andrea Cordero, Color, gender, Mexican, powerful, Salt Lake City, skin, stereotype, strong, UT, Women

Andrea Cordero
Salt Lake City, UT

I no longer wan to be viewed just by the color of my skin or my gender. I am ready for this world to see me for my abilities and streangths and not just catagorize me as a “minority”. If we want to see each other as equals we need to stop puttnig ourselfs into catagories.

Being An African American Feels Powerful

September 10, 2014 advantages, African American, Baltimore, beautiful, Chelsea Delaney, explain, MD, Power, powerful

Chelsea Delaney,
Baltimore, MD.

I have read different race cards that elaborated so much about the downsides of being my race, about being an African American and the disadvantages of it. I do believe that both sides need to be explained, but I want to focus more on the positive. Focus more on how liberating it is to be an African American woman in 2014 feels like. To me, it feels like power. There are so many people of color making major moves in our world today and it is beautiful. Us as people of color were built on learning how to survive, how to make it. In the process of learning how to get by, we have also gained power. We as people of color are unstoppable. We come together when we need to make change, we remember what our forefathers stood and died for, and we stand on the foundation of hope, faith and power. We are full of soul, culture and most of all power, and that’s what I love about my race. We are beautiful.

I hate these walls between us.

May 7, 2014 Apart, CO, Englewood, hate, Joel Bass, powerful, Race, walls

Joel Bass
Englewood, CO

The idea of race was created to keeps us apart, to make it easier for us to harm each other, to make powerful people even more powerful. It’s arbitrary, it’s hateful, and in my heart I can see a world without it. I ache for that world.

powerful, struggle, overcome, justice, music, civil rights

March 26, 2014March 28, 2014 Alexandria, Brian Lounsbury, civil rights, justice, music, overcome, powerful, struggle, VA

Brian Lounsbury
Alexandria, VA

The Civil Rights movement was powerful, and such a struggle to overcome the injustices of one group toward another in a fight for justice. The music that brings all together and honors the civil rights all deserve!

“What did he look like?” “Friendly.”

October 27, 2013 CA, describe, Friendly, look like, Matt Nightingale, powerful, Santa Rosa

Matt Nightingale
Santa Rosa, CA

My name is Matt, and my family and I are white. About five years ago, I learned a powerful lesson from my son.

I had taken my kids to go swimming. I noticed my 7-year-old son Zach playing with a little African-American boy for quite a while. That night as I tucked him in, he brought up something funny his new friend had said.

I wanted to see how he would describe his new friend to me, so I said, “I think I saw you with your friend. What did he look like?” He thought for a second and then said… “Hmmmm… Friendly?”

I saw an African-American boy. Zach saw a friendly boy.

Powerful nations considerate you inferior, Africa.

May 12, 2013 Africa, countries, Hyattsville, inferior, Marie Makoue, MD, nation, powerful, territory

Marie Makoue
Hyattsville, MD

At people’s sight Africa is seen as a undeveloped territory. I choose theses words because they emphasize developed countries’s opinions about Africa since ancient times. In today’s world there still people who see Africa as a village territory; a place of torture, misery and sufferance. Even though there still, Africa is a developed continent. It’s a living territory.

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