Oliver Parr, Tuscaloosa, AL. Being white in the state of Alabama automatically means that most people assume the worst. I was raised in the State of California where race truly is not even a topic of discussion. I grew up not looking at the color of a persons skin but how tough it is. I […]
Tessa McCoy, Wise, VA.
Brigid Reese, USA.
Christopher Loncke New York City, NY Brooklyn
Laurie Johns Tuscaloosa, AL I am white. I attended integrated public schools in Montgomery, Alabama from 1st through 12th grade graduating from Sidney Lanier High School in 1983 as part of a white minority of around 30%. I believe having an integrated school experience allowed me to know and be familiar with black people and […]
Austin Beaton Eugene, OR
Ad Ross Fort Bragg, CA We’re all racists, we can’t help it, we can only know it and fight it
Michelle Strum Halifax, Nova Scotia
Erica Katy, TX
Anonymous Ann Arbor, MI
Breana Gaspar Potsdam, NY SUNY Potsdam
Anonymous Morris, MN
Saidah Tualatin, OR It’s been like this forever. My husband is white. My friends are white. My neighbors are white. My coworkers are white. This never used to bother me. But now it does. How does one start to paint their world in color?
Anneke Gilliam Marietta, GA
Diana Varney Salt Lake City, UT Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation
