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My mom and dad were wrong.

Kim Floyde, Montrose, CO.

I’m not wrong, I’m just different

Kylee Arnold, Pine City, NY These 6 words fit the way I was raised. I grew up being taught that everyone is different. No one...

Taught all wrong, now teaching others

4 years ago4 years ago

Steve Jones, Durham, NC. I grew up in a segregated community and the concept that African-Americans (of course, not the word that was used) were...

Difference doesn’t mean wrong, but unique

7 years ago7 years ago

Angela Han, Korea. There are people who still are racist. I faced them when I was in America, the land of freedom. Because we all...

Hapa: but always the wrong half.

7 years ago7 years ago

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, Chattanooga, TN. I’m half Japanese and half white. In Hawaii, where I grew up, mixed race people like me are called “hapa”...

I am not wrong, I’m different.

8 years ago8 years ago

Back when I was a kid, I used to wonder why or how people are different, why do we all have different races? When I...

Wrong race to love NA child

8 years ago

Susan, Portland, OR. DNA vs love. DNA wins.

Was born on the wrong planet.

9 years ago9 years ago

Sonoki Laursen Eugene, OR The University of Oregon

I didn’t think it effected me.

9 years ago9 years ago

Jillian Manning Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project – University of Michigan I was wrong.

Why must our differences be wrong?

9 years ago9 years ago

Sarah Whitlock Indianapolis, IN It is so frustrating to be around people who are discriminatory. I am tired of having to worry about offending someone...