“My friend didn’t understand the big deal. She ‘doesn’t see color.’ She thinks it doesn’t matter what race or ethnicity characters are, because we are all ‘the same.’ Can I be honest? You. Are. Wrong.”
‘I told a friend how excited I am for my daughter to see The Little Mermaid movie. I was so proud my daughter would see herself in Ariel, a beautiful Black princess.’
‘Look at that beautiful little blonde baby you made! Why would you want to adopt a biracial child?!’ My parents were appalled.’
“We could not have looked more different from one another. One day, we were walking home from school when several boys rode their bikes up to us and started throwing rocks. ‘GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!’ We were terrified.”
‘Dear fat woman on vacation, you looked gorgeous as you and your husband got on stage for a couples’ contest. I could tell you are outgoing. I was excited to see you kick butt.’
“Then it was announced the competition involved the husbands picking up their wives. My heart stopped for a moment. There was no way your husband was going to be able to lift you. You tried to leave the stage. Then it was your turn.”
‘I noticed an older man staring at us. I was annoyed and wished for once, we could eat a meal like a ‘normal’ family. Suddenly, the man walked towards us. My heart began to race.’
“He shook my husband’s hand, and nodded his head. His eyes filled with tears as he looked at my children and said, ‘I just wanted to tell you that you have such a beautiful family.’ I watched him walk out the door as tears rolled down my cheeks.”
‘I was standing in line. An older gentleman said, ‘Why are you wearing that rainbow shirt? Are you some sort of fa***t?’
“This man then goes on to mumble homophobic slurs to me, the whole time I’m waiting in line. I ignore him, pay for my food, and start to walk away. I then notice his card gets declined.”
‘This was not in my plan’: Mom’s difficult time accepting son attending college 13 hours away
“I have grown up and gone to school my whole life with people who basically look like me, think like me and believe the same things I believe, and that’s not the real world.”
‘My good friend Thomas sits here’: Selfish man learns eye-opening lesson from foreign student
“The last thing I want to do is give a guy who barely speaks my language high fives at 8 in the morning.”
