By Theresa Vargas Theresa Vargas Local columnist who previously wrote for the local enterprise team about poverty, race and people with disabilities. Email Bio Follow Columnist April 10 at 3:22 PM In black letters on a blue poster board, a question beckons from a wall at Duke Ellington School of the Arts: “Why is it hard for you to take responsibility for your mistakes?”“Cause lying is easy.”“It makes me feel like a failure and I hate that feeling.
But that’s not all the students have been doing. They have also created a campaign — which the poster board is part of — that aims at fighting hate crimes and empowering their peers who face discrimination.When a 16-year-old student at the school emailed me to ask if I could write about the production and the campaign, I started to email him back and politely explain that I don’t cover school plays. It’s not that I don’t appreciate them. I’m just not in a position to critique them.
In another usage, those two words capture all our insecurities and allow us a choice. We can feel ashamed of the things others might judge us for, or we can own them. We can own our skin color and our body shapes and our love of bad TV. We can own our disabilities and our quirks and our privileges.It is encouraging that high school students are having these conversations, especially because they are growing up at a time when hate runs through their lives in so many forms.
“Own It reminds me that because of my place in society and American culture, I am not challenged and singled out as different or not accepted for being who I am, so therefore I must stick up for my loved ones and peers who are victims of hate,” wrote sophomore Quincy Corsello, the student who originally contacted me.
, black is beautiful
Stop STOP JERK, WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE TO MAKE ALL SOCIETY GAY OR QUEER? What is WRONG WITH NORMAL PEOPLE? So normal people must no longer exist?
u got to know. :)
If only we could stop using the word 'queer'.
Simply being a queer black woman in America does not immediately grant you the status of 'awesome.' You need to have accomplished something, like: 'I came up with a creative solution to a problem at work, then I went home & cooked a delicious meal for my family. I'm awesome!'
We shouldn’t have to “own it”; we should just be able to “be” without stigma, prejudice, or judgement. Until that time comes, social minorities are in the right to proudly celebrate themselves.
interns have difficulties with the copy/paste concept I’m a queer black woman in America
Um... I am a straight turtlein JeruTurkey, and I am awesomer?!?!
'I’m a queer black woman in American and I’m awesome' That sounds familiar? What did Hitler think about the Germans? All Nazi and Communist bastards need to be expelled from America. Regardless of RACE or gender. And America will again be a safe state.
They really do act like children
Whatever...I don't care.
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