Glad my daughter is not white.
Nice White Lady, San Francisco, CA. I’m a white mom to a brown daughter who can’t shake the shame and embarrassment that stems from a...
Never Been Asked: “What Are You?”
Ella Harris, Columbia, MD I always felt disconnected from my African American identity. With my blonde hair, light green eyes, and fair skin, the world...
The Only One In The Room
John Lane Cincinnati, OH In college and through my entire professional life, I have always been the only African-American in the “room” I am “safe”...
Where do you really come from?
Blanche Tsetong, Australia. I get this question often. Mostly at work. It never fails to infuriate me, particularly because the question is only ever directed...
My Black Panther freshman college roommate
Alan Ritter, St. Louis, MO When I arrived at MIT, my assigned roommate was an African American guy from Detroit. In the fall of 1969,...
PROUD FATHER OF MULTIRACIAL CHILDREN.
David Reising, Peoria, IL My first wife and I adopted 2 bi-racial boys in ’69, a girl in 71 and another girl in ’74, Had...
Taunted by Whites for being untanned.
Marcia S Davis, Holland, MI Since I was a kid and into adulthood, I’ve heard people say to me, a Caucasian, “You’re so white!” “You...
Where Are You From? No Answers.
Charley Sullivan, Ann Arbor, MI. Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan It was 1976. I was 12, and just moved back to the DC suburbs...
My children can be badly behaved
Erin Seaton, West Newbury, MA. I have two great kids. They are smart and kind and thoughtful and sometimes they also fall apart. We are...
WHY DON’T YOU WEAR MY SHOES.
YOU RECENTLY RAN A STORY ABOUT A FELLOW WHO LIVES IN PACIFIC GROVE CALIFORNIA….INTERESTING. FROM 1987 TO 1995 I TOO LIVED IN “P.G.” AS IT’S...
How did you get a boy?
Claire Wallick Moy, Maplewood, NJ. This is what I was asked in 1998 when I moved to NJ. Our 3 children look much more like...
Identity Thief Blasian Sensation Lifelong Educator
Jennifer Wong Cernak, Chester, MD. I have been listening to your race-card stories for a long time and heard the topic of mixed race come...
You’re not a typical black girl.
Jessica Conley, Las Vegas, NV Born and raised in westside Detroit, lived in Chicago, Richmond VA and now Las Vegas, those six words followed me...
Dating an Arab, not just him.
Maggie C Portsmouth, VA My friends and family notice his skin color first, instead of his amazing personality or how much he loves me.
I’m cutting off ties with Black People
Elmer R Hemingway, Pearland, TX Tired of the black community’s victim mentality, entitlement (reparations), massive racism based on skin color…. a glorified level of bullying....
In a way, we’re all stereotypes.
Alex, St. Petersburg, FL To look at me I fit an archetype of an overweight, white male. I feel like I’m so much more than...
Proud Celt: Neither White Nor Asian
Marian L. Ireland I’m Irish with an Asian-sounding surname; suffice to say people are always surprised to see me turn up when they’re expecting someone...
