Joel McReynolds studies Public Administration and Ethnic & Racial Studies in La Crosse, WI. Upon graduation he hopes to work in nonprofit management, and currently fills his free time playing ukulele.
Words are powerful. There are politically and emotionally charged buzzwords we choose not to use, but there’s also a seemingly innocuous terminology we use that can divide people from each other according to ethnicity, social status and background—whether we mean to or not.