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Just want credit it is due.

June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 Ancestors, Beachwood, blame, credit, internal struggle, Jasmine Shabazz, Minority, Ohio, pain, Play the Race Card, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, slavery, speak out, struggle, tight knit, white

Jasmine Shabazz,
Beachwood, Ohio.

So, never once have I blamed the white kids and there families for slavery. Never once did I say there ancestors enslaved mine. And I hate to look like the girl who always plays the race card, or who always wants to cry about the struggles my ancestors went through. But when I feel like my struggle is being downplayed or overlooked I can’t help but too speak out. And to my peers it may seem like I’m always speaking, but that’s the result of being more than one minority. My mother is Puerto rican and black, My father is Saudi Arabian and black. Highly unfavored! And I would never put my struggle over anyone else’s but at my school it is a high concentration of Jewish people and its so amazing to me too see there culture thrive and how tight knit the community is. And so when you sit in a class of kids that are mainly Jewish it seems at times that there struggle is being put over mine. And that doesn’t go down easy for me because after there oppression they bounced back and I commend there community for being so strong. But my people are still so broken that we can’t seem to get ahead and this kills me because I wish after our culture has been erased and we have been stepped on that we can come back and unify and show how magic us ” Blacks” really are. But in 2016 it seems impossible. SO I’m sorry if this has offended anyone but I can’t hold my tongue when it comes to defending and representing my ancestors. I accept there struggle as my own and it will not be forgotten until the pain is.

Our silence will not protect us.

November 1, 2020November 3, 2020 Allison G. Hawthorne, complacent, one race the human race, PA, protect, silence, speak out, stand up, voice, Vote, York

Allison G. Hawthorne,
York, PA.

We all have to get up walk out our front doors and stand up and speak out, so our voices are heard. We have to vote. We have to stop being complacent. Sometimes I feel weary of struggling, when are we all going to be just human?

I’m outspoken, now I’m a threat!

September 5, 2016March 14, 2022 FL, Izarya Nathan, Miami, Ostracized, outspoken, speak out, threat

Izarya Nathan,
Miami, FL.

Whenever I speak out against wrongs being done I immediately become ostracized and veiwed as a threat to status quo.

I don’t speak for my race!

March 20, 2015 African American, all Black people, Black, Celesti Colds Fechter, enigma, multi-cultural, NY, Race, speak for, speak out, Tarrytown

Celesti Colds Fechter,
Tarrytown, NY.

I feel as though when I am the only African-American in a setting that I feel obligated to “speak” for other African-Americans. I will not do it and don’t ask me to do it. I had a job where I was the first African-American hired in a professional setting. I felt like an enigma. I am the only face of color in the room of over 50 people. It was not the first time this has happened but I felt as though I was the center of attention. When I started my job I told my co-workers, “I don’t dance and I will not speak for “all” Black people. It became a running joke that I was “teaching multi-cultural-ism” at lunch. I never felt more “Black” when I worked there. My co-workers were great it was the people who came in who were surprised to see me. I learned to be myself a long time ago and it became more important when I worked there.

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