CRS

“Our generation is the change.”
― Charlena E. Jackson, Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?

“The way of the world is full of judgmental people. People size me up and down with their eyes. I am told that my hair is too curly to be white and too straight to be black. People ask me questions as if I owe them an answer—what does my race have anything to do with you—and why do you care. The fact is, race shouldn’t exist—it is not real. It is made up, but race does matter.” Race shouldn’t matter, but it does. In society's eyes, race is stubbornly real.”
― Charlena E. Jackson, Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?

“It makes me sick to see that we as Americans are at war with each other’s race.”
― Charlena E. Jackson, Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?

“Racism is like a wildfire that will never die out. The only way for it to die out is for it to be smoother with love.”
― Charlena E. Jackson, Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?