Chocolate

Have you ever said "I don't see you as black/asian/latino" to a person of color?

I hear it all the time, and the worst part is, the people who say it don't realize that pretending to be colorblind is really belittling the person you're talking to.

I am white. I didn't choose to be white, but I was born that way.

My best guy friend is black, he didn't choose to be black.

Sandra Oh, the actress who plays my favorite character in TV history, she's Asian...Korean. She didn't choose to be.

We are all human. So we have different pigmentation, it doesn't mean that we don't have the same insides. Peel off our skin and you have muscle, veins, arteries, bones. That's what makes us human. Not our skin.

When MerDer fans found out that their precious ship was going to adopt a baby, and more to the matter, a 'black' baby, racial comments spewed all over the internet.

I sat there going, "good for them, they're finally going to have the family they wanted."
It was only after they saw beautiful Zola in Derek's arms that they came around, whats worse, is they acted like just a week ago they hadn't made hateful remarks.

  

You're going to see color. It's always going to be there right in front of you. What matters is what you do with what you see.
When I see a man, no matter what 'race' he may be, the first thing that goes through my head is whether I find him attractive. I like men, so it doesn't matter to me what shade your skin is, if I'm attracted to you then I'm attracted to you.
If you're black. Awesome. We'll have beautiful chocolate children together.

There is no 'ghetto' way of talking. There is proper English...and then there's not.

It's a little scary how naive people are to our past, to the way people of color are treated. Most white people I know take the fact that they are white for granted. They don't even give it a second thought.
I see acts of racism and discrimination every day, I don't understand how people can treat other people that way.

GLBTQAI

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning/Queer, Allied/Asexual, and Intersexed

Yesterday was the #DayofSilence. Hundreds of thousands of students nationwide took a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying, and harassment in their schools. As a proud supporter every year, I donned a sticker and watched proudly as handfuls of people around me, stronger than I am, stayed silent for the day.
It always moves me, seeing a bunch of people join together for something; working together for a common cause.

More than 30,000 Americans commit suicide each year, and 5,000 of these people are teenagers. 1 in 3 suicides amongst teenagers are committed by homosexual ones.

I proudly answered questions about the day, why I supported it, and explained any questions I could. I may be heterosexual, but we are ALL human. We are people. No one deserves to get bullied, no one deserves to feel so much pain that they feel like ending their life is the only answer. So if I can help in any way, shape, or form by answering a couple questions so that people are more informed, then that's what I'm going to do.

According to studies, homosexual teenagers are four times more likely to kill themselves than heterosexual teenagers, and eight if their parents are not accepting.

A girl, who I occasionally talked to stunned me that day. She flat out stated; "I hate gay people. They are disgusting." As I stared at her shocked the only response I could come up with was, "Why?" And she didn't have a response. "I don't know. I just do." I lost so much respect for her. Comments like that, hurtful statements. That is the reason why so many people feel scared to come out, ashamed.
It should not matter to anyone if someone was born with a penis and likes men, or was born with a vagina but knows in their soul that they are male. If every time you meet a new person you're looking at their pants instead of their eyes, you're not a good person. I'm gonna flat-out say it. I wouldn't care if I met someone who had two penises flailing around in their pants, it's the person inside. It's their soul, who they are that makes them a person. 

We all have one beating heart, skin; we cry, we smile and laugh and we feel. We are human. People. We hurt in the same ways.

I cannot fathom looking that girl in the eyes again, but I will. Cause I'm the bigger person, I understand that everyone is different, and factors play into everything we believe and don't believe. But I will not stand for bullying, for pain, just because two people of the same sex happen to be in love. Just because a guy wears a bra, shaves his legs and puts on heels. Bullying is unacceptable. Suicide is unacceptable. Another life lost to torture and pain is unacceptable. 

**Even though I cannot stand Arizona, this is cute.