I take my race for granted.
Lily Waxler, NA No thanks, I’d rather not say., . I was going on my 8th grade trip for Costa Rica last year and I...
“Race” is Fiction, But “Racism” is Real
Walter Harris Gavin, Sarasota, FL. Walter Harris Gavin is the author of The Autobiography of Obsidian Dumar, a novel of identity and creator and producer...
Hard questions need to be asked
Noah, Siloam Springs, AR. To much today are we scared to talk or ask about things related to race, but that just shows us even...
Race Doesn’t Exist, We Create It
Jenna DeBell, LONGWOOD, FL. Race doesn’t exist, we create it. The concept of race has always baffled me. Judging a person’s character, intelligence and abilities...
Race DOES NOT mean black or white
True Native, Vacaville, CA. It is sad to say that racial discourse in America has degraded into a petty fight for blacks first, all others,...
Not allowed together because of race.
Vika Linvell, Las Vegas, NV. My fiancee and I are happily together (Most of the time if we’re alone and actually able to see each...
My race is my constant companion.
Dianne Rush Woods, Hayward, CA. Race is never far away and the power and privilege that does or does not come with it, haunts my...
Why bring up race so much?
Sandi, Brooklyn, NY. I hear this question often by non-black individuals who haven’t experience racism (overtly or covertly) in their lifetime. And how these individual...
55 mph means you black man.
Gregory McGriff, Rutherfordton, NC. I am an Ivy-league graduate and a board-certified medical doctor. The subject of race comes up all the time but the...
Grateful for the grace of friends.
Jen Yearwood, Milledgeville, GA. I am grateful to friends that provide me knowledge and perspective as it pertains to their diverse background; whether that’s race,...
Hapa: but always the wrong half.
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, Chattanooga, TN. I’m half Japanese and half white. In Hawaii, where I grew up, mixed race people like me are called “hapa”...
Race can mean nothing, or everything.
Stephen Mai, Seattle, WA. Race to some can just be a dirty word, used to victimize themselves and create more barriers and problems, where as...
RIGHTEOUSNESS Awaken by SURVIVAL through FORGIVENESS
Dr. Felicia R. Wilson Young, Washington, DC. The constructs of race can not define me, withhold anything from me. I love the SKIN I am...
Liberals can easily be racist, too
Vincent Zaal, Minneapolis, MN. We come from a very liberal area and are staunch liberals ourselves and yet in people’s attempts to “not be racist”...
There is only one race “Human”
Rebecca Myers, Battle Creek, MI. I wish we were all treated and acknowledge each other as equals. After all there is only one race and...
Race doesn’t tell the whole story
Sara Branly, Jacksonville, FL. Although i’m white, i have an incredibly diverse family’ culturally, ethnically, racially, religiously, etc.; you can’t tell anything about a person...
