I carry my home inside me.
Steve Baker Minneapolis, MN Inspired by Hmong American writer Kao Kalia Yang.
Privilege means responsibility to be better.
Morgan Lavandowska Minneapolis, MN As a 21 year old white woman, I have the privilege of being white that gives me power to do what...
My great Grandmother cooked for white slave masters
Jerrid Crumo, Minneapolis, MN. Race is something that has been going on for the last 2000 years and will continue to go on for the...
He has a black doctor.
Greg Filice St. Paul, MN I work in a hospital teaching hospital. In my 40 years working in healthcare, I have watched as the population...
Enough to make you look pretty
Adrienne Zimiga, Minneapolis, MN. I was born and raised on the Pine Ridge reservation my first 12 years. Upon moving from Batesland, SD to Castlewood,...
Mexican Irish Girl: agnostic and dry
Joan Socorro Sullivan, Minneapolis, MN. I’m a quarter Mexican and over half Irish, I don’t attend church and I don’t drink. My hair is dark...
Not ‘Illegal’ – Human and Deserving Compassion
Tracy Loynachan, Minneapolis, MN. To me, the terms ‘illegal immigrant’ and ‘illegal alien’ are demeaning. These terms are used too frequently, especially when talking about...
Hmong American muaj lub siab tawv
Janes Lee, Minneapolis, MN. I am a Hmong American male, residing in the most Hmong populated state though we are still very unseen. The service...
Concerning. Scary. Exciting. “Hi, I’m Elaine.”
Elaine, Rochester, MN. These were the words that come to mind when I met my first non-white person — an American Indian girl. We were...
Ex-military, don’t understand my country’s culture.
Alan Hill Minneapolis, MN Why don’t veterans speak of their experience? Because of the culture barriers to understanding. Military veterans don’t yet understand (as a...
You can raise your daughter white
Nicole Minneapolis, MN As a descendant of Germans and Scandinavians, I am termed WHITE. My daughter is is a strawberry blonde with creamy white skin...
A piece of the American Pie
Jeraine Cuff Minneapolis, MN Door knocking captain for Northside (MPLS) Community Re-investment Coalition
I got all the white genes.
Cayla Olson, Duluth, MN. I have always felt that I had to qualify my racial identity with those six words. I am part native, my...
Family matters; race, not at all.
Phyllis Kedl, Little Canada, MN. Ours is a multi-ethnic family. We have fourteen grandkids, only five of whom are ethnically related to us. The rest?...
