You don’t look like you’re Chinese.
Jess Washington DC My mom is Chinese. My dad is white. I am half-Chinese, but my appearance is ambiguous. I feel like I have to...
Hire best person for the job
Angie Balderrama Reno, NV My husband is white and lost out jobs to blacks and hispanics, or due to nepotism. I am hispanic but do...
American should be our new Race
Matthew Heuser Painesville, OH If your an American, then we are all the same Red, White, and Blue. Color shouldn’t matter anymore. People try too...
Oh, you’re white.
Aneshia Savino NM My mum named me after a black actress she admired, and every time someone who has not met me previously, reads my...
Wow, you speak real good English.
Karin Kross Levenstein Austin, TX Korean adoptee, adopted as an infant by white parents. “Are you Chinese? Japanese? What are you then?” Always weighing out...
Literally means nothing, actually means everything.
Salma Moosa Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project – The University of Michigan
Yellow. Chinaman’s chance in hell. Scarred.
Fred Submitted via: WNPR Connecticut Public Radio Where We Live
Don’t judge books by their covers.
Nancy Hassan Fridley, MN What you see isn’t always what you get according to stereotypes. Someone’s race, or ‘cover’ is just the outside, it doesn’t...
Black is still the new black!
Noël Gordon Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project – University of Michigan In response to those who think is the new black.
I don’t trust whites, I’m white
Laura Bell Gahanna, OH Disowned by my “white” family after my mother married a black man, I was raised by my step-father’s family since the...
Racism Deniers Are The Worst Racists
Garrick Kevin Peterson Exeter, CA Being a WASP, I am privy to what white people say about blacks, hispanics and other minorities. Often they think...
