Hapa: but always the wrong half.
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’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
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
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...
I am not wrong, I’m different.
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...
I didn’t think it effected me.
Jillian Manning Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project – University of Michigan I was wrong.
Why must our differences be wrong?
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...
Mugged…Most assume black mugger…wrong
Lynne Moffitt, Virginia Beach, VA. When I was living in Louisville, I came home from work and was mugged when I got out of my...
You’re the wrong kind of Mexican
Alex Armstrong San Diego, CA For some of us, we don’t quite fit here or there.
What ever happened to Freddie Tilghman
Edward M Moriarty, Clearwater, FL. A profound change to my thinking of right and wrong, when a FRIEND was removed from a picture of my...
Really, we are all the same
Elizabeth Todd, Plainfield, NH. I grew up in the south and as a child heard my elders disparage blacks, Latinos and Catholics. Even as a...
