DATING AS A “BLACK” MAN…
NR Jr., Tampa, FL. So as a paid volunteer in the US Armed Forces who has traveled extensively across the world. America has a “big”...
Their Mormon ancestor’s genealogy was “mysterious.”
Judith McConkie, Salt Lake City, UT. The sentence describes our family’s conflicted past. As liberal Democrats in the 1970s my husband and I considered the...
Dating: I’m too dark for him?!
Anonymous, Northampton, MA. He’s a white European, and has never considered black women to be attractive, apparently until he met me and we got to...
Blinded grandfather gave granddaughter excellent vision
Nicole, East Lansing, MI. My grandfather was blind all my life. All I knew was that there was an accident. It wasn’t until he passed...
Amazing Grace. No more family secret.
Daryl Bruce Denning, Corning, NY Raised “white”. At 52, December 2001, I learned of my ancestors of color. I do not know the origin of...
I don’t fit in your boxes.
Dave Lawrence, Mechanicsville, VA For most of my life, when I was asked my race, I was forced to choose just one — and I...
Not all cops are bad cops
Abby, Sparta, NC Everybody thinks that just because there are a couple of crooked cops out there, that all cops are bad. My dad happens...
Hatred hurts the hated and hater
Dan Creamer, Sandpoint, ID. I grew up in the Jim Crow South. Being white I always felt both guilty and angry about the way black...
DNA results: my body is colonial.
Kate Cunningham, Milwaukee, WI My white ancestors swallowed up the non-white ones, then pretended they were never there at all.
1960’s Dearborn will haunt me forever
Bonnie, Empire, MI Grew up in Dearborn under the very watchful eye of Mayor Hubbard. Watched in horror at the treatment of the ONE black...
Two Black Lesbian Daughters. Say What?!
Shelley Ferrand, USA. After the initial shock of their coming out, I realized that THEY are the long search for fruits of my 1960’s labor...
They think I am a girl
Roxie Tenequer, Lawton, OK My son begged me for two years to cut his hair. Kids at his school constantly teased him and told him...
Left Crying in the Bathroom Floor
Charlie, USA. I brought my car in for an oil change (in the predominantly black area I live in) and they told me that it’d...
Not colorblind, just failed to see.
Megan Pastore, Chesapeake, VA Pull me over, and I get to walk away. I’m not colorblind, but due to my white privilege, I failed to...
Asian and afraid to go out
Maddie Hsia, Minneapolis, MN Because of high Covid infection rates, many people are scared to leave their houses. I am also afraid to leave my...
“It’s different, shopping with mom”
Chas. Sundling, Tillamook, OR These words were spoken by one of my two sons. They were spoken a few years back, and led to quite...
I have been alone among many
Gordon Lee Pattison, Los Angeles, CA. In 1959, when I was 14 years old, I moved from Los Angeles to Honolulu. I had just started...
