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Ronny D. talked about not understanding why his family hated Chuukese people when he was younger, but he just blindly followed their example. He would call Chuukese people "cockroaches" and pick fights with them. What's interesting is that Hawaiians of other races see Chuukese and Marchallese people as the same; yet Ronny D would treat Chuukese people as though he were above them. It is just crazy to me how blindly children follow their parents and will blindly hate other races. This all just feeds into a dangerous cycle of hate. (198)

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Sharmaine is publicly insulted during her date with a white man, and says she feels like she brought it upon herself which is very saddening to hear. (p100)

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Shermaine's advisor treats her incredibly badly and is told by her dean that the advisor could do anything to her because of his position. (p100)

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William brought up the fact that many progressive movements in America were helped by white people who were abolitionists, anti-racists, etc. He brought this up as a rebuttal to another idea he brought up - the suspicion of white people among non-white people. This was interesting because as a white person myself I wouldn't be like "what about Thomas Garrett" if Harriet Tubman was brought up because that just feels wrong to say, almost like I'm dismissing what Tubman did.

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Shermaine's dad was incredibly ill and died simply due to the fact that he did not receive correct advice from his physician. Also, African Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival rate for most cancers. Biases in the medical system are extremely upsetting. (p99)

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I really emphasized with Neda's story on page 237 because it illustrated a dilemma i frequently grappled with: choosing being American or Chinese. Often, we want to become American, but like Neda, we learn that true power and identity is embracing our culture and the people that made us us.

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there were more women than just Rosa Parks who refused to get up from their seats on the bus (103)

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Imposter syndrome, described in the book as when someone wants to be something but sees no other people who look like them doing that thing, and it makes them feel out of place. (p99)

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Latinx, Native American, and Black communities are 2-4 times more likely than white people to lack access to healthy food. (273)

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It is very annoying to me that people would tell Renee that she is over reacting and making everything about race when she is just trying to open people's eyes to the systematic oppression woven throughout society. (193).

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"someone reminded me that if I don't have any initials behind my name, especially because of how I look, I'm disposable." (p99)

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A woman named Jo tells about the story of the lynching of a young black man in 1916 named Jesse Washington. He had been accused of a murder and was given a 6 day trial but attorneys did nothing to defend him. Once announed guilty a mob pulled Jesse out the court house, dragged him donw the street,strung him up on a tree with a chain by his neck, poured coal oil on him, and lit boxes on fire beneath him to hoist him in and out of a fire below him. He was tortured like this for 2 hours while families set up picnics to watch.

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Around 9,600 Palestinians and 1,251 Israelis have been killed by someone from the other side by 2018, and it's upsetting how little the people care and just pass it off as an "unfixable problem." (97)

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Renee's father was constantly treated as an undocumented immigrant based on the color of his skin and would not get hired for jobs even though he was the most qualified. This is just extremely outraging and annoying. (192)

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Javier gave a speech about gender neutral bathrooms and making Santa Fe more inclusive. After the speech he got so much hate because he "was allowing perverts to come into the bathrooms".(293)

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There was a statistic regarding the mental health and suicide rates of Asian American women and Asian Americans. It said essentially that Asian Americans are less likely to get help for mental health related issues... I think it's important to note that this is most likely a direct result of the "Model Minority Myth" that only allows Asian Americans to exist within academic spaces and defines harshly what success means.

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Shermaine's college advisor would constantly belittle her and make her work more, whereas the white male student could do whatever he wanted

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There are still 954 hate groups active across the United States (270)

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Children today are still actively being taught that the Native Americans were savages, not victims to American colonization. (58)

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In 2017, hate crimes against Muslims rose about 15% in the US. It's just shocking that I never heard about it in the news or on the internet. (96)

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I thought it was really cool to hear the story of someone going through a cooking competition and their perspective with food, culture, and the expectations they face. I agree that food stores like Whole Foods definitely hurts lower income people and generalizes food and cultures into one monolith.

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The existence of private "segregation academies" after segregated public schools were ruled unconstitutional, which was a very clear continuation of it, but some people call it "freedom of choice" schools (152)

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The government conducted nuclear test in the 40's on the Marshall islands dropping multiple bombs more powerful than the ones at Hiroshima. These islands are now nuclear affected and the people living there have high rates of cancer(231)

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Pakistan had a woman for a prime minister while the US hasn't had a female president yet. (96)

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no matter how hard poc women try, there will almost always be barriers trying to stop them. (98)

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Schools were affected by problems within the community. In some towns, it was 60% African American and 40% White however public schools in the area had something like 82% black because white families were going to great lengths to ensure their kids were going to a private school to make sure they weren't in the public schools.

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it's really interesting to me that though Jason had a diverse friend group growing up, he never had a discussion about race with them. (189)

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Post Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, all peoples of Japanese descent on the West Coast of the United States were forcefully relocated to concentration camps, via the president's executive order 9066.

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Mississippi has the highest state population of African Americans, but also has the lowest education rate and poorest population in the nation. (51)

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Jasmine believed she was Native American for a long time, until a DNA test showed that she was only 0.2% Native American. A distant relative was wanted by the police, so they forged their birth certificate to say that they were Native American, allowing them to hide in reservations. Jasmine feels extremely betrayed and how race is just a concept that is completely made up. (158)

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Kimmy's story is so eventful and full of ups and downs. She suffered so much throughout most of her early life. To name a few things: she was molested at 7, she ran away from home, she was a prostitute for a time, she went to prison many times, and she was addicted to drugs. What's crazy is that even after this traumatizing early life, she was able to find peace with herself and her past to some extent. She learned to forgive herself as well as take some sort of accountability for some of her issues.

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Being undocumented takes away many opportunities

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Being undocumented takes away many opportunities

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This is an obvious fact, but Rosa's story in Chapter 4 brought a human face to the fact that undocumented immigrants do not have access to many important things, from drivers' licenses,  applying for college, etc. This is another systemic push to stop immigrants from getting the same opportunities they can to survive and to succeed. It reminds me of something that people in Massachusetts are voting on today, for undocumented immigrants to get drivers' license. This is an issue - still - today!

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At the capitol building, Winona and Priya are searching for the person they're going to interview, when someone says "Hey, you two must have come from Asia! How was the trip over?" (211)

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In northwest Arkansas there are towns called sundown towns, they are white communities that people of color shouldn't be in when the sun goes down. And many remaining KKK members mainly live in Arkansas

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Omar was a reporter and said that he was tortured in Gambia, so he came to the US with lots of trauma (93)

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This is untrue, I knew that Jews were treated as a different race during the time surrounding the Holocaust. This fact just confuses me a little every time I think about it. Race has to do with heritage and phenotype, not religion. Religion can be practiced with people of all different races. Then again race is a social construct that was first established to separate the white man from the black man and reinforce slavery. So if race could have been invented then, I get that anti semites could have established another race to create a racial hierarchy. (189)

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A young girl is told she needs to "fix" her hair for her dance class and to not come back with dreadlocks because its a distraction. They eventually even changed the guidelines to say no "ethnic hair" (228)

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Louisiana passed a law stating that anyone who had "more than 1/32 black blood" was forced to formally identify as black, and had to comply with laws like sitting at the back of the bus. This law was not repealed until 1983. (63)

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President Andrew Johnson reversed the "40 acres and a mule" promise after Lincoln was killed, giving the land back to previous confederate owners. Legislation after lacked implementation plans, difficult for non-whites to obtain/ own land.

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I did not know that that so many black families lack a fatherly figure. On page 217, it notes that "2.5 million Black fathers live with their children and 1.7 million don't" (217). I think what's important to note is that this issue is caused by things like incarceration and also often gets generalized to be a stereotype and in fact black fathers are on average more involved than other fathers.

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"If you come in from I-65 South, there is a giant Confederate flag on the side of the interstate. It's just so huge"(69) This is ashley's story from Alabama

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Shelley says that when white people tell her "you don't love white people" she responds by telling them that she wouldn't be calling awareness to issues of racial inequality and police brutality if she didn't love white people. This was surprising because it provided a new perspective which I have not heard as to why people are educating others on racial divides and how to fix them.

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School segregation did not end with Brown v. Board, and nearly 180 school districts were involved with desegregation cases as of 2015. (52)

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there is no word for gender in Cherokee language, and they tend break gender-conforming barriers (90)

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I'm always impressed when I hear stories of people who got kicked out of their homes (especially at a young age) such as José who got kicked out of his home--at the age of 15-- because he is gay. However, he managed to put himself through high school and college and now runs an equity center! (pg 209)

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women with disabilities are 4-10 times more likely to experience sexual assault

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In West Omaha, there were over 600 people in the graduating class, while only 6 of them were black.

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I did not know that in the 1938 Louis vs Schmeling match, Schmeling was supported by Nazis and Louis was a black man representing America. I was not aware of this match at all but I especially did not imagine the underlying and layered message of the fist statue representing when Louis knocked out Schmeling. It's interesting how the more known interpretation of the statue is Detroit's "comeback", resulting in gentrification of people of color, which is about the opposite of the underlying message of the struggle against discrimination. (147)

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The fact that this has to be physically written down in order for people to have empathy and understanding is unbelievable...

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The average person cannot name another black woman who helped in the civil rights movement, apart from Rosa Parks.

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A young woman tells her story about dating back in 4th grade, where she dated a white boy. When the boy found out she was biracial (black dad, white mom), the boy said he doesn't date "dirty Black girls." (149)

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"A study found that just having one black teacher in third, fourth, or fifth grade reduced low income black boys' probability of dropping out of high school by 29%" The impact that black teachers have on low income, young black children is extremely important to their development and growth.

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a trans woman was disowned by her family and wasnt told where her own sons ashes were and her family would literally move if a family of color moved near by

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there are so many places that aren't accessible for disabled people, things that able-bodied people don't have to think twice about (87)

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Due to the one child law in China, many children born disabled were "sent down the river" or in other words, killed. This was incredibly sad to learn about. (p87)

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I did know until now that there is a collective experience of people of color in which exhaustion occurs from repeatedly speaking on racial issues. I know that there's frustration and desensitization but I did not know that there is an annoyance around non-poc and non-blk assuming that poc have a fascination with speaking about race. It is work, (Chapter 9, page 3). I think its important to recognize that there is an emotional sacrifice in trying to teach others to deconstruct racism.

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In the introduction of Chapter 4, Winona and Priya discuss the duality of ego stories and soul stories - concepts that I know but did not ever think of. The idea that people think that they are antiracist by saying that they don´t see race or are colorblind or there isn´t racism in a society is a reason why stories and experiences aren't being told and why there is still racism today.

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Coastal city racism/antisemitism Chapter 8

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Coastal city racism/antisemitism Chapter 8

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many people living in the coastal cities are afraid of swastikas and racist graffiti placed upon the walls of the city. Many others grew up experiencing such casual acts of hate and witnessing a casual racist expression written on the wall.

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It really sucks that people in Danelle's community would make her feel less native because she had a darker complexion and didn't "look like a Navajo." (187)

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A tourist justifying her reply with color blindness, made a statement that a city was dangerous in the past because a majority of the population was black (146)

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there were 5 women who led the civil rights movement (84)

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I did not know/learn about any of the five women who led the civil rights movement until today. (p84)