I’m Dutch-Indonesian. Why do you ask?
Jessica Stagg Heber, UT They’re eyes widened. “How..?” someone asked awkwardly. I laughed. It was a reaction that I was so used to whenever someone...
We define ourselves, not race.
Christian Rigby Heber, UT I believe that everybody has the potential to become the person they want to be. We should not let things like...
She is just a dumb blonde
Rachel Salt Lake City, UT Blonde hair and blue eyes must mean no brains, right? Despite having a college education, being an avid reader, having...
Black and white at their grayest.
Brelynn Evans Riverton, UT This sentence came from the idea of the phrases: “the difference between the two are black and white” and “the similarities...
Power, love, and a sound mind.
Ingrid Asplund Provo, UT This is from 2 Timothy and is a verse I always use as a resource during important or challenging moments of...
Change will take another generation
David Bennett Park City, UT I am a criminal justice consultant. I was working in a major southern city and an elected official said to...
White skin means lack of heritage.
Laura Berbusse Salt Lake City, UT I feel like I neither have, nor have the right to have, a rich, cultural heritage. Further, I feel...
Time to use my “white” voice
Susan Cissoko Provo, UT In order to be as professional as I can be in the work place I feel I have to put my...
Middle-school fight, brown punished, not white
Tonia Torrence Salt Lake City, UT My six words are based on experience as a mediator for the juvenile Victim/Offender mediation program for the Salt...
Whiteness: shameful, boring. Black is beautiful
Sylvia Kronstadt Salt Lake City, UT For 60 years, I have wished I were black — or at least “colored.” This may seem outrageous to...
My name and skin don’t match.
Jennifer Lopez Salt Lake City, UT Don’t match your assumptions, that is. It certainly doesn’t help to have the same name as a famous Latina,...
Skin is the color of humanity.
Billy Cosby Salt Lake City, UT Everybody has one. No one is better than another. None is superior or inferior to another, yet it is...