You like this type of music?
Valkyrie Hall, Janesville, WI I grew up very diverse with music since I grew up around many people from country to rap, so sometimes people...
Sweet, intelligent, handsome, loved black man
Kenyatta Yamel Milwaukee, WI Heard about this through twitter so I thought I would have my say.
White family, black children majority, white child minority
Bill Taylor, Middleton, WI My seven words express what our children have said to us. My wife and I are white, around 79 years old,...
Hope, Pray, Love, Nourish in Life.
Terrance Lofton, Fond du Lac, WI. Let us all continue to move forward by realizing we have issues and problems.
Tell that Iraqi doctor, I’m leaving!
Danny Thomas Brookfield , WI I am an Indian American and was working in the ED at a children’s hospital. A mother who was angry...
I (don’t) fit. Don’t look closely.
Emery Boyle-Scott, Milwaukee, WI. I want to belong in a group, and it’s nice to belong until someone looks closely. My whiteness is always sidelined...
I have no culture I’m white
Erin Miller, New Berlin, WI. No one has ever asked what country I’m from. It’s assumed I belong in the United States. Although I have...
Stop watching, Start listening. It’s complicated.
Phyllis A. Christie, Plover, WI I have learned more about our racial diversity, our racial tensions, and our racial inequities in the past three years...
Nice small town has race issues.
Sara Przybylski Stevens Point, WI People think this is a great place to live, work, and raise kids… and it is. Just under the surface,...
I’m finally learning, I am powerful.
Alexandra Rosas, Milwaukee, WI. After a lifetime of wishing I could be accepted and trying to be anything except who I AM, to fit in,...
We’re black. We love the outdoors
James Edward Mills, Madison, WI. On June 24,2013 Adina Scott made a satellite phone dispatch from 17,200 feet on Mount McKinley in Denali National Park....
Amendment becomes law Crenchaw ascends Denali
James Edward Mills, Madison, WI. On this date 51 years ago the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (enacted July 2, 1964) was signed into law....
Playing by everyone’s rules is exhausting
Anonymous, Madison, WI. To Fred down the street I’m half-Asian; to Nick the bus driver I’m from southern France; Veronica thinks I’m obviously Native; McKayla...
I’m a American Indian not a Native American
Damone Wilson, Milwaukee, WI As a kid, I remember coming home from school & telling my grandmother about what I learned for black history month....
But like where’s your real dad?
Nadia, Janesville, WI My stepdad is the only dad I know and he’s raised me so as far as iI’m concerned he is my real...
White people on TV aren’t me.
Paula Trucks-Pape, Wisconsin Rapids, WI. What a fantastic and simple writing prompt, exercise for students, all around thought provoker! Thank you.
