Dear Kenneth Jones,

Due to the new found information I have retained from the book Between the World and me by Jalen Coates, I decided to write to you since you are a cherished friend, and you so happen to be the color of skin that the white man seems to be displeased by. After reading this book, I have come to…

The Land of Opportunity

Dear Mom and Dad,

First off, I would like to say thank you. Thank you for everything. Particularly the sacrifices that you’ve made for me and my brothers. The both of you wanted a better life for us, even if it meant that you would have to start over and…

Dear Alice

Dear Alice,

You are white. By this simple fact you will fully not understand the injustices and discrimination that others have dealt with at the hands of those who share our skin color. For people who share our compplection has looked down upon others who do not look like us as…

Dear Sister

We have white parents and a white family, but we surrounded ourselves with every color of the rainbow growing up. When we were young we didn’t see the physical differences between people, we saw who they were as a person either as our friend or as our childhood foe; foe, because they pushed us down on the…

“My Aspirations”

Hey guys,

Camilla, you’re the only one that may understand. But Jillian, Aiden, and Dylan, I write this to you so that you could read this later. I normally don’t talk to you about anything serious, mostly because I don’t think you will all understand. But this letter…