Let’s Talk About Race

“I’m proud of being myself. I love my language. I’m connected with my mom by singing and dancing to Mexican music.”

“I told her that she was racist. And then I had to go to the office. It made me and it made me very mad. Life isn’t fair.”

“It made me feel like why did he choose to pull us over out of all cars that he could have pulled over?”

“I will never be embarrassed of my culture, because that’s what makes me different and unique.”

“When that boy said that about us, I feel kind of sad and mad a little, because that’s really racist and that hurt my feelings.”

“Some people on the news, were chasing somebody, a black guy, and it made me upset.”

“He said the N word, which made me really mad. And then he apologized to the whole entire class but I felt like it didn’t mean anything.”

“Some kids came up to me and said, You shouldn’t be playing with these black kids come play with us. And I said, these are my friends, I’m going to play with whoever I want to play with.”

“I feel like getting angry when somebody says the N word to me.”

“I’m an Asian girl that gets compared to a lot of other Asian girls. They assume that I’m a Korean girl, a Chinese girls, a lot of other girls, I’m just a Burmese girl.”

“How I feel about racist people is that it makes me upset and curious.”

“One day me and my friend were at the park. Another kid came up to us and said, ‘What’s your color?’.”

“I was at the Mall of America and there were a lot of Somalian people. And this kid that came with us, called them monkeys. I know that’s not right.”

“I was outraged that the teacher did not do anything. It was a racial slur.”