You see me as I’m NOT!

Sonya J Van Alstyne,
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Being Sicilian explains who I am.

Where are you from? No, really

We aren’t all strong black women.

Are your feelings and thoughts yours?

Are they yours? Are you sure?

We are not all HIV positive.

My skin is not my culture.

Asians challenge the Black-White racial binary.

It's not strange meat it's mortadella

Why can't I simply be me?

Rooted in Hatred, Risen in Audacity

I am not a single story

Not white enough, Not hispanic enough

Bittersweet victories ,hope through constant casualties

Not a Stone, But a Human.

I am Micronesian. So like Hawaiian?

I hate being called a white boy

Troopers Said You're The Wrong Color

Black Girls Don't Get Depressed...Wrong!

Grandma's racial rejection disappeared with Olivia

Mexican Irish Girl: agnostic and dry

Brown girl rejected with red blood

I am proud of my heritage.

I get sunburned in ten minutes.

Yep, Guatemalan-American is an actual nationality.

Stop judging, start loving, create peace.

Theatre was supposed to be safe

Hidden behind a picket white fence

You don't even talk like Indians

Your beautiful curls! They're all gone.

Embrace who you are, love it

But like where’s your real dad?

All eyes on a black boy

You cannot judge on race alone

Don't think of you as Asian...

Why must society put us in boxes?

Different is not bad, just different.

Be you, the world will adjust.

Gay White Autistic Male....Difficult Fit

I feel invisible, while standing out.

White Martial Artist, who's not White.

Not always privileged because I'm white.

Hey is that your real hair?

Bless Black Skin and Blue Uniforms

Is the ticket together or separate?

Black mom. Blonde daughter. She yours?

No one else chooses my identity.

Black Irish, mother's grandfather from Barbados.

You're mixed with that hair, right?

You're Not Like Us, Fake Hispanic

I am definitely blacker than you

I'm Picket White fence Family White

“A black married mother, who works”

You are white not WHITE WHITE

I Don't Think I'll Ever Understand.

The Natives are coming back home.

Black Is Beautiful, Never Second Guess

No, I am Hispanic, not Indian

White People continue to disappoint me

I’m a American Indian not a Native American

Why does government care about race?

Single mom, recovering addict, and felon

Being Black and Queer is Possible

Black Girl In A White World

White skin and Blue eyed Native

Tight Black curls line the tub

I'm Jewish in a Baptist town.

How does one become a Patel?

Restore Hope; Peace, Love, Unity, Respect

Look like them, Sing like us

You really aren't a real Mexican.

I AM BROWN SO NO DETENTION

White Bones Ache For Black Moves

Love. Race shouldn't matter. Hope

Thank you Richard and Mildred Loving

I am me, not my parents.

Poor white trash, not welcome here.

Mother of all with endless love

Just Another White (Cough) Hispanic (Cough) Boy

White mother, Black daughter, Love Wins.

But I'm not White... I'm Jewish.

Anglo interloper newcomer outsider awkward minority

I'm Sorry My Black Scares You!

What does talking white sound like

I've never really been black enough.

You Aren't Native, You Are White!

No greater. No lesser. Only equal.

Listen when we say it's real!

Because of my badge, I'm racist?

Coloreds, Grandma, what color are they?
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