Teen Project RACE

1. Accurately identifying a multiracial individual's race on medical forms would SAVE LIVES.
2. Multiracial people DESERVE the option of identifying all aspects of their racial heritage
3. Noone should be forced to choose between denying part of their heritage and being classified as an "OTHER"

Public Advocacy - Civil Rights and Liberties

Our country's growing number of biracial and multiracial people do not have a box to check on forms that fully recognizes their racial identity. Being forced to choose only one race puts us at a medical handicap and forces us to deny one of our parents. It also requires us to define ourselves as something we are not.

Multiracial people who choose to should have the option of recognizing all of their heritage. "Multiracial" is important so that children have an identity, a correct terminology for who they are. "Other" means different, a label that no person should bear. Perhaps more important, without proper racial and ethnic classifications, multiracial people are "invisible" in the health care system.

Project RACE advocates for multiracial children and adults through education, community awareness and legislation. Our main goal is for a multiracial classification on all school, employment, state, federal, local, census and medical forms requiring racial data.