Teaching white students about social justice.
Terri F. Reilly, St. Louis, MO. I don’t only teach white college students, but many of them come into the classroom with blinders of privilege...
White, Technology, Life-Enhancement, Ancestors, Human-Rights
Jason Peter Thomas, USA. I did not realize it was a good thing to be proud of my white heritage until gay marriage was legalized...
Men can love and nurture too.
We are a family of two dads, no mom. It’s a fact we can’t conceal. We are generally met with positivity. But too often we...
If you were black you’d know.
Frank K Norris, Knoxville, TN, I have a good fishing buddy friend. I’m white and he is black. One day I was driving on the...
With kids, people don’t separate us.
Steve Cox, Jackson, OH. Prior to having kids, people usually thought my wife (Chinese ethnic, Thai national) and I (white) were separate. If we went...
Good hair is well maintained hair.
Jessica Elaine Burks, San Diego, CA. I am Black, Irish, and Native American. My paternal grandmother had straight long hair. My maternal grandmother had 4c...
You’re Mexican? But you sound white…
Alexa Mendoza, Sun Valley, CA My American accent makes me insecure so I don’t like speaking Spanish to anyone other than my mom.
But what’s your actual Chinese name?
Bowen Tan, Canada When I was growing up, there was one question that I specifically feared: “what’s your name?” At first, it seems like just...
Still want to touch your hair
Brenda Becker, Brooklyn, NY. I grew up in a white Queens neighborhood where neighbors worried that “they” would “get in,” and the cool girls had...
Privilege cripples; step out, run naked.
Tannya Forcone, Akron, OH. My truck isn’t allowed to go faster on the freeway because it’s yellow. Why should my skin color allow me any...
Brown dad. I never felt white.
Terri Kimmel, Corpus Christi, TX My dad had jet black hair and tawny olive skin. His mother was Sicilian and his father had an English...
Brother played Cowboy, never the Indian.
Bonni Hamilton, Eliot, ME. I grew up with two Native American siblings who my parents adopted when we were very small. When he was young,...
Half brown. Half white. From Vancouver.
Yasmin Pallan, Canada As a half Indian, half white person growing up in Vancouver and later Toronto, I was and still am tired of always...
Mama said, “It’s alright, take it.”
Rhoda Locklear, Las Vegas, NV. Words of my mother the first time I ever saw a black lady who offered me a glass of water.
Bicultural and Bilingual should be enough.
Megan Medrano, Houston, TX. Growing up Latina in south Texas, I have always been surrounded with rich culture. My home was filled with both the...
We can always change the channel.
Audrey Lee Cho, USA. My parents immigrated to America in 1973, with my older brother Lee Wan Young and my sister, Lee Shin. I was...
Boy From America’s Heartland, Indian American
Rahul Iyer, Mesa , AZ. I graduated high school from Dixon IL, a small town halfway between Rockford and Moline, in the Northwestern part of...
Damn Yankees don’t go back home
Patty Reed, Greenville, SC. Originally from Pennsylvania, I’ve lived here the majority of my life but I cannot say I’m a native South Carolinian. While...
