Mugged by black teens, trust destroyed.
Alison Blomster Minneapolis, MN I think there are some healthy reasons why stereotypes of black male teens exist. After being mugged by 5 black teenage...
African-American, no. American whose’s black, yes!
Vanessa Minneapolis, MN I HATE the term African-American. I don’t hold citizenship to any country on the African continent so why do people feel the...
“We don’t do ethnic hair here”
Sahra Hassan Minneapolis, MN This was said to me by a hair stylist the minute I walked into a salon. Ironically, my hair was cover...
You’ve got to be carefully taught
Kathleen Z. Minneapolis, MN I enjoyed your talk at the Guthrie so much. I listened to it again yesterday and was disappointed the man from...
Christian, White, Norwegian, Jewish. Still me.
Elizabeth D. Minneapolis, MN Jewish and Christian?!?! Yep! Jewish by heritage, Christian by religion.
Ashamed that I was completely oblivious
Diana Valentine Minneapolis, MN I am haunted to this day (and I am now 65) that I was so completely clueless about race, civil rights,...
Why not start at the beginning?
Susan Roedl Minneapolis, MN Like much of the country I’m sad and confused at the Trayvon Martin verdict. How can George Zimmerman claim self defense...
Being white doesn’t automatically mean racist.
Carstens Smith Minneapolis, MN I quickly learned in the 80s, when my employer mandated attendance on race and diversity, to stay very, very quiet. My...
Are you sure you’re not hispanic?
Claudia Noronha Madrigal Mankato, MN These words are one of my earliest memories of living in the U.S. I can’t remember for sure where I...
