Harassed and beaten for being white.
Rita Burkholder Huntsville, AL Growing up in the seventies and eighties was hard on all of us as kids. But having fellow students channel their...
Theater: Black line clinging, Tall building
Vera Patricia Mitchell Lillian, AL I remember My father showing me how the black people entered the theater in Pensacola. through a door at the...
Slavery, stolen opportunities. Abolition, broken promises.
Delphine Fenderson Birmingham, AL So much was taken from my people during slavery. We are the only Americans that worked and built this country and...
I hate thugs of ANY race.
Brad Lapinski Birmingham, AL Black, white, brown, orange, purple – get an education, get a job, even if you feel it’s beneath you and contribute...
White privilege doesn’t work for Asians
Martin Smith Mobile, AL We are told that the wealth and functionality of Whites and the poverty and dysfunction of non-Whites comes from “White privilege.”...
White is the default, isn’t it?
Robin V Bessemer, AL That man who helped me at the grocery store (meaning that white man) vs. that black man who helped me at...
Ancestors were pirates. EVERYBODY’s my cousin!
Martha DeWolfe Huntsville, AL Some of my ancestors were so evil a part of the family broke away and went to Canada to get away...
You’re Pretty, for a Black Girl.
Kem Huntsville, AL I was so shocked when a white co-worker said this to me. He actually thought he was giving me a compliment!
But, Sir, I’m the victim here.
Roberta Leichnitz Montevallo, AL The events in Florida have brought back so many memories of the things that would happen to my son and his...
Everyone on Earth is from Africa
Dick Christiansen Huntsville, AL “When humans first ventured out of Africa some 60,000 years ago, they left genetic footprints still visible today.” That’s from the...
Justice for all, tempered by mercy.
John Birmingham, AL Until race is not an issue we will never have Justice. Fear keeps us apart. We make the fear by noticing the...
