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Identity Part 2: More Geographical Perspectives

ThinkSayBe — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:59:53 +0000

Dear reader, thank you for coming by again. If you’d like to read the first part to this post, please read Identity: A Geographical Perspective. Sophia in the United States of America My first home away from home was Santa Monica, California. It was beautiful. I would walk everywhere. Once I saw Keanu Reeves casually […]

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Building Resilience on the “Surf-Board” of Life

Piya Mukherjee — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:51:00 +0000

If there is one skill that most of the people on this planet have been compelled to nurture, since March 2020, it is arguably RESILIENCE amidst change. True – there may be many different shades of color to this skill. While some of us have bid goodbye to loved ones, others have said a farewell […]

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Identity: A Geographical Perspective

ThinkSayBe — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 04:18:32 +0000

“Where are you from?” “What is your ethnicity?” Do you ever get asked questions about your identity? How about me? Could you guess my ethnic background or identity? In fact, you could put your answer in the comment section and see if you aren’t alone! There is going to be some humor in this post. […]

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Kyle Rittenhouse: Was The Verdict Fair?

World Moms Network — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 18:50:03 +0000

In August 2020, a 29-year-old African-American man named Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times by police, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This incident resulted in Jacob being paralyzed from the waist down. On August 25, 2020, during the protests that followed, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse left his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, and went to Kenosha, […]

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Love Thy Neighbor

Disha Ellis — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:09:03 +0000

Amazon Prime released a series called “Them”. It is set in the 1950’s, and it tells the story of a Black family that moves into an all-white neighborhood in Los Angeles. Watching this show reminds me of the fact that my parents were the second Black family on our street. This was well before I […]

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Acknowledging White Privilege

Orana Velarde — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:48:03 +0000

Being Latina AND white A few years ago, I wrote an article about being a white Latina. It didn’t go down well. I’ve learned a lot about white privilege since then, and it’s definitely made me see things differently. Through my erroneous view of how being a white Latina was a disadvantage, I learned just […]

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Walking between Two Worlds: An Asian American Experience

To-Wen Tseng — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:44:45 +0000

Identity is a most curious thing. In a blog post that I wrote for NPR’s intern edition back in 2007, I started with, “I moved to the United States four years ago, but I never felt more like a foreigner until I was back in my homeland of Taiwan last summer.” I then told a […]

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Growing Up In Apartheid South Africa As A White Kid

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:00:41 +0000

When I was six years old, my father’s job took us from South Africa to the United States. The year was 1976, and South Africa was reeling from the Soweto uprising, a student-led protest against the Apartheid government that ended in the deaths of at least 176 Black school students, with thousands more being injured. […]

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Ma’Khia Bryant, Duante Wright, George Floyd

World Moms Network — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 20:10:26 +0000

Happy, angry, afraid. As we rejoiced in the “Guilty on all charges” verdict of Derek Chauvin, 15-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant had just been murdered by a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio. The use of a taser would have been effective in stopping Ma’Khia. It would have given the police officers the opportunity to form a […]

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Nine Minutes And Twenty-Nine Seconds

Yolanda Gordon — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:28:25 +0000

In May of 2020, the world was forced to slow down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After Memorial Day, people from around the world watched as George Floyd took his last breath while former Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck. For nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds, we watched a man’s soul leave his body. […]

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