YOU know what I’m talking about?
King I Allah Lowell, MA This question is at work and on the streets (I’m a so-called Hispanic teacher in a predominantly white teaching force...
“A Teacher Who Looks Like Me”
Meghen, CA I’ve been babysitting for my current family for about a year and a half now, and I’ve heard of and been present for...
Ask questions. Listen. Perception is Reality.
Josh McCumber, Palm Beach Gardens, FL Truly listening. Asking good questions. Showing understanding and empathy. Not everyone’s perception is the same.
Go ahead, ask me…it’s okay.
Victor, Minneapolis, MN. Questions not asked are questions un answered! Do not assume, get the story from the source.
Don’t make assumptions. Just ask questions.
Stephanie Woodworth, Piscataway, NJ. My six words are in reference to how hesitant (in some cases, even terrified) people are to talk to each other...
3 percent Irish? How’d that happen?
Tee Virginia Beach, VA I would love to find the answer to that, and many other questions…
If you’re white, don’t ask questions
Brenna McCurry, Orange, CA. I feel like because I am white people get mad at me for asking questions or saying anything about race/ethnicity. I...
“What are you? Where’re you from?”
Bettina Sferrino, Oakland, CA. As a mixed race person, I get these questions all the time. The persons asking have a strong desire to know...
Korean and Syrian. Lots of questions
Katie, Submitted via WNPR Connecticut Public Radio Where We Live.
From Jamaica but I am white
Craig Schoonmaker Leesburg, VA “You are from Jamaica. How come you are not black?” “Are your parents black?” I don’t mind the questions and curiosity...
Yes, they are my REAL kids
Paul David Binkley Delaware, OH My wife of twenty two years and I are interracially married, she black and myself white. Over our years together...
Encouraging ignorant questions promotes understanding difference.
Zak Forde Morris, MN I do not mean to use “ignorant,” in the overused negatively-charged sense, but rather in the abstracted dictionary definition of the...
Yes, we are mixed…
Krystal Scott Bayoone, NJ This is the answer to the question I am asked weekly. I was asked this question as a child often. However...
