Sorry for sins of my ancestors
Katie, Salem, OR I struggle with feeling heavy and saddened by the history of the United States. I want to do my best to protect...
My ancestors crossed the color lines.
Deb Ewing, Washington, DC. Project RACE (Reclassify All Children Equally) has been dedicated to helping us be able to find identities on various forms, including...
You look too foreign for me.
Danielle Silver Forest Park, OH A white guy I liked told me this. I am white( German, Irish, Penn. Dutch), Hispanic, Native American. I used...
White, Technology, Life-Enhancement, Ancestors, Human-Rights
Jason Peter Thomas, USA. I did not realize it was a good thing to be proud of my white heritage until gay marriage was legalized...
Trying to make amends but failing.
Kate Beem, Independence, MO I am white and middle class. I grew up in a town in SE Missouri whose population was about evenly split...
I’m not proud of being a WASP.
Nancy MacLeod, Philo, CA. I have ancestors that came to America in 1630- among the 1st to take advantage of the indigenous people. What is...
Bohunks were not white in Nebraska.
John Rodney Davis, Carmichael, CA As a young child in Northern California, I never felt different in the overwhelmingly white world I was raised in....
Would All My Ancestors Love Me?
Melissa U., Charlotte, NC. My Taino people would love me, from my plump lips to my curly hair. My African people would love me from...
Racism runs light, medium, and dark
Tori Carter, Sioux City, IA My name is Tori, and I am a senior at North High School. I am dual-enrolled at Western Iowa Tech...
My ancestors massacred Indians near here
Bruce Hawkins, Northampton, MA. That doesn’t make me guilty, it makes me responsible. Prison is the new slavery, and the Drug War is modern slave-catching.
We come from the same ocean
Timena Mano, Northern CA. Since I was a young child, one thing I knew for sure was that I was Samoan. I am Polynesian but...
Ask him yourself if he’s black
Anne Gruel, Canada. My partner is from Jamaica and identifies as mixed race. His parents are black, but he has very light skin and has...
No One Traces Ancestors Back (to) America
Anonymous, USA. I find funny it when people say, “I’m full American” or something along those lines because all Americans are immigrants, or of the...
Race is just accident of birth
Saygo Nino, Sunnyvale, CA. Don’t be proud of something you didn’t achieve. It is just whom your ancestors spread their legs for.
I raised my children color blind
Annette, Houston, TX, . I am white and I am weary of being included in a white subset of American original sin. The only original...
Spoiler Alert: We’re ALLLL from Africa!
Kristin Silvani, NJ. Get over it, racist white people! You’re embarrassing the rest of us!
Race stolen when ancestors abused enslaved.
Janie Hill Hatton, Milwaukee, WI First National Principal of the Year 1994 I value this project and hope it will prompt conversations to unite the...
