Still want to touch your hair
Brenda Becker, Brooklyn, NY. I grew up in a white Queens neighborhood where neighbors worried that “they” would “get in,” and the cool girls had...
“I’m Native American too!” — says everyone
Alyssa Cartee New York City, NY Queens Every time race and culture comes up, when I mention that I am a registered Cherokee I get...
Such power in words and action
Alyssa Cartee New York City, NY Queens Every word and every action in life has such extreme consequences. The Civil Rights movement reminds me that...
Only through interaction, foreign becomes familiar
Ansel Oommen, Queens, NY. Once we realize that all people are uncannily similar, we can start to support a diverse human ecology of symbiosis.
White Privilege Asian Wife Still get it…
Lee, Queens, NY. I live in NYC. A melting pot no? I am one of the few people where I work who is white American....
The beautiful struggle continues….only necessary
Chenelle Nixon, New York City, NY. Queens. Collected from The Race Card Project, On Location: The Brooklyn Museum What is a race when no one...
Light skin doesn’t make me privileged
Em New York, NY Born in Mexico, to mexican parents, crossed the border to find a better life, learning english on tv, grew up in...
Use your privilege to help others
Chris New York City, NY Queens Some people have it easier than others. They need to stand up for those who have it harder.
This is your life in technicolor
Georgia Brooke Guinan New York City, NY Queens Life is about so much more than black and white. Stop being limited by your closed mindedness...
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...
“Go back where you came from”
Richard Perez Bay Shore, NY I was born in North Kingstown RI and raised in Queens NY. Somehow, because I am Latino I am often...
