Rubinstein? Funny, you don’t look Mexican.
J. Rubinstein Cincinnati, OH Not many Mexicans named Rubinstein
You go, she held her purse.
Michelle V. Rowley Adelphi, MD I was in my supermarket recently. I had just left the gym, dressed in my tights, Puma gym bag, iphone...
Wanted brown skin before I understood.
Nancy Silverrod San Francisco, CA As a kid, before I understood anything about racism, I wished I was black, because I thought people with brown...
This privilege sucks. Please send cash.
Todd Maxwell Omaha, NE Look, I get the whole white privilege thing. I read “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” and I understand it. What I don’t...
We owe our plight to Taney
Sheldon, Coral Springs, FL. There are two types of law – one for whites and one for BLACKS. The Civil Rights Movement accomplished a great...
I deserve the opportunities you have
Michael Tucker Columbia MD Opportunities at good education, loans, housing, travel, safety. These are all apart of the fabric of life American life and to...
“We beat them fair and square.”
Elizabeth Koopman Cockeysville, MD These were the words spoken to me in 1994 by the president (now deceased) of the University of Maine at Machias...
Human race is the only race
Olaf Schroeder, Houston, TX. As a naturalized citizen, born of one culture, and transplanted into the American culture, maybe I have the advantage of another...
Stop right there you little n******s!
Dale Jimison Henderson, TX This is what was said to me and my younger brother when we were kids all because we had approached a...
Why African-American? Why not just American?
Manuel Lluberas Jacksonville, FL Africa is not a country or a culture. It is a continent with almost fifty countries, several hundred tribes and as...
Southern white privilege and racial ambivalence.
David Painter Winter Springs, FL I had a black southern Mammy in 1963 (who I adored), graduated from private, elite, lily-white high school in 1981,...
