Being a person of color is being asked where you’re from and having them respond with “No,
where are you really from?”
Being a person of color is not worrying about your qualifications, but worrying if the
interviewer is racist.
Being a person of color is avoiding all police officers when you know you are innocent.
Being a person of color is being too afraid to speak up for your rights.
Being a person of color is knowing that you will apply for a hundred jobs and get two responses.
Being a person of color is having customer service talk to all your friends in French, but speak to
you in English.
Being a person of color means knowing that there will always be someone who wants you
deported.
Being a person of color means accepting that some opportunities are way too far for your reach.
Being a person of color is having to tell everyone you meet that you were born in the same
country as them.
Being a person of color means begging your parents to buy you western foods to fit in.
Being a person of color means isolating yourself from your own culture to assimilate.
