Race is everything, race is nothing.
John Daws Tucson, AZ I learned this years ago from an elderly black woman in a coffee shop in Manhattan. She said, “For black people,...
Unique and enriching experience shaped me!
Pamela Payne Foster Tuscaloosa, AL I entered high school in 1972 and was part of an integration experiment in Atlanta GA called the Minority to...
Hometown never knew anybody unlike me
Scott A. Hall Adel, IA Growing up in a small Midwestern town the entire population of the town looked like me, acted like me, worshiped...
Equality is an evolving Concept.
Victor Goode Long Island, NY America’s first revolution was enshrining the value of liberty into our constitution. The Civil War Amendments, 13, 14 and 15...
Are you black? You look so …
Nicole Collins Bronzan Rahway, NJ I’m a mutt — black, Native America, Irish, you name it — raised all over the world as a military...
Integration: equity and opportunity for all
Rob Breymaier Oak Park, IL We hear so much about how segregation harms people and communities. We don’t hear enough about how integration improves everyone’s...
Separate and unequal still exists!
Lori K. Elliott Wyoming, OH I am African American. More than 40 years ago, my parents took me out of the public school and enrolled...
Integrate. Know me; don’t fear me.
Laurie Johns Tuscaloosa, AL I am white. I attended integrated public schools in Montgomery, Alabama from 1st through 12th grade graduating from Sidney Lanier High...
Only one race: hue-man!
Michael Thau Centennial, CO I noticed that people of different races are no different in their core. Some are smart and others less so –...
Still separate, still unequal! CHANGE NOW
Sophie Dover Jamaica Plain, MA Despite all the gains we have made as a country (which people love to harp on) – a harsh reality...
Equality Promoter Becomes Racially Inferior
Amy Blue Tulsa, OK As a white girl in a top-ranking and racially diverse high school, I could not understand why the student population segregated...
We are miseducated and don’t know.
Christopher Bland New Orleans, LA Recently I’ve been studying my history, my essence, that extends beyond what was taught in school and at church. I...
Biggest problem affecting quality public education
Denise Hills Tuscaloosa, AL I live in Tuscaloosa, AL. I’ve been involved with education, primarily at public schools, for years. This past election, I ran...
Ambiguously different from everyone else. Stereotypes.
Jessica Winfrey Portland, OR I am biracial and bicultural and was educated for the first 6 years in a very diverse school on an air...
Bigotry, Enlightenment, Experiencing, Acting, Agitating, Living
Isabelle Keefe Marrero Tuscaloosa, AL I am 76 years old, grew up in New Orleans in ingrown bigotry, discovered that black people had a last...
