Being Asian, my Authenticity is Questioned
Colette, Sacramento, CA. “I love Asian girls” “I love Japanese people” “Konnichiwa” “Ni hao” “Sayonara” “Kamsammida” ‘Your a bad Japanese. You don’t know Japanese.’ “Are...
Teaching My Children About Racism – Disturbing!
Octavia, Louisville, KY. In 2014, our 11 year old son would play outside everyday with the neighborhood little boys. Our son was told by the...
Back into closet, fear of unemployment
Luke Flint, MI Coming out in college was an amazing thing. My family accepted every part of my life. The man I met and have...
Tired of being blamed for everything
Steve Snair, Canada. I’m a white male. By today’s definition, I’m the most privileged person to step foot on the planet. Well, let me tell...
Hockey is not a white sport.
Robin Perez, San Francisco, CA As a young kid, I never thought of getting into hockey as I had always known it to be a...
You can sit in the bar
Diane Graves, San Antonio, TX. My husband and I (both Anglo) were driving our adopted daughter (born in El Salvador, adopted as an infant, a...
Jim Crow Paper Genocide Native AmerIndians
Paper Genocide, Pinnacle, NC. Pictured: Monacan Indian Children at Recess How Jim Crow Practiced Paper Genocide Against Native American Indians. Jim Crow laws were a...
Unlike Color, I (Can) Hide Being Gay
Hollie Watson, Murfreesboro, TN Technically seven words, but oh well. The only way I can relate to racism is through the hate I get by...
White? Just don’t think about it.
D., Toomsboro, GA I grew up in a small southern town with a fairly even mix of African Americans and whites. I went to a...
Still racist. Sorry. Working on it.
Madeline F., Canal Winchester, OH I grew up in a highly racist environment that I’m trying to work out of myself every day. It’s hard...
Enter the Diner, all forks dropped
Kevin Heaven, Sunny Isles Beach, FL. Too many times I find myself as the only minority or Black person at a particular location, I get...
I didn’t get to know her.
Sarah Hildreth Ingersoll, Middlebury, VT Growing up in Baltimore in the 70’s and 80’s, I attended an all-girls’ school, starting in fifth grade. In the...
My Jacket Came With A Hood
Jayla, Wichita, KA I shouldn’t bother anyone or look suspicious by taking a walk with my hood on if I’ve bought my jacket that came...
These woke people still fast asleep.
Robert Wayne Copeland, Excelsior Springs, MO We were friends once, as equals. If you need to go tear down some statues, remember to wear a...
I don’t always wear a suit!
Rob West, Lakeland, FL I am a leader in the industry & in the community and I am well respected. Most days, I wear a...
I was American, now just white
Charles, San Francisco, CA, New Rochelle, NY, Worldwide Essayist Richard Rodriguez, said it best back in 1997, what can be the American inability to not...
