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Mar 2019
They ask,
What’s your ethnicity? What’s your race?
On standardized tests, on job applications.

They deleted the ‘other’ option.

Now,
On Wednesdays, I choose ‘White.’
On Thursdays, I choose ‘Hispanic.’
On Fridays, I choose ‘Asian.’
On Saturdays, I choose ‘American Indian.’

Don’t try to put my identity in a box.
It doesn’t fit.
Written by
kgladd
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