Race envy on school’s cultural day
Andrea Krida Goff, Providence, RI. I’m a teacher in a wonderfully diverse urban high school in Providence. Every year during Spirit Week, one of the...
We are not taking your jobs
Layleen Providence, RI Most Americans say that immigrants ae taking over their jobs but we are all equal its all about the effort you put...
The wheelchair does not define me
Catherine Cranston, RI People do not call me a white girl but the girl in the wheelchair.
“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...
Foreign black prison. Only white inmate.
David Swain Wakefield, RI Four years in prison, away from family and friends in far away land, wrongfully convicted for murder, only white inmate, nearly...
Only experienced discrimination from other Latinos.
Alicia Velez Stewart Providence, RI I also could have gone with “Wow, you don’t look Puerto Rican,” or “You are too “white” for us.” My...
Naked, upside-down, backwards. Equal we’re born.
Claudia J. Ford Providence, RI For the vast majority of natural births we all come into the world exactly equal. But race remains the social...
Race? Biologically, it does not exist.
Edward Chomka Warwick, RI Color discrimination? Unfortunately, alive and well.
Whites don’t get it. I’m white.
Carolyn Baldwin East Providence, RI As the mom of an adopted brown-skinned male, I have read a lot about growing up non-white in the US....
