The Uncertainty My Blackness Brings Me
Ashlei, Knoxville, TN Being a black woman sometimes feels like I will always have unjust obstacles in my life. I will learn to deal with...
Anger stole my sense of joy
Charken, Mimai, FL When I was younger, I had anger issues which one day burnt me out for a few years. It wasn’t until recently...
He put pickles in my pancakes.
Jeannette Chavez Albuquerque, NM It was the early 70′s in the Texas panhandle. On a road trip we stopped at a diner to eat. He...
Nothing was handed to me EVER.
Randy Shafer, West Allis, WI. We was raised to treat everyone the same. Most of what goes one in the world doesn’t represent the “whole”...
Mexican hands are for farm labor.
Fred Rocha, Huntington Beach, CA Those are the words my parents were told by their counselors in Los Angeles high schools back in the 1940s....
Hate, Discrimination, Divided, Less Than, Stereotype, Anger
Asia Tunstall, Tustin, CA Let’s be as ONE!
Pain anger confusion impatience exhaustion pride
Jua Fluellen, Washington, DC. I would like for more people to deconstruct the role race places in the way they are perceived and responded to...
More Than Just a White Male
Rylan A Brooks, Mount Joy, PA I have never been discriminated against in my life, based on my skin color and my gender. I have...
He called me “honky”. I laughed.
Debby Carter, Loomis, CA. I knew the word was meant to annoy or anger me, but it just sounded silly. His face changed from angry...
Heart isn’t racist false accusations anger
Kevin Antonelli, Vienna, NJ. I remember the riots of the 1960’s yet at the time as a young child didn’t know the reason behind them...
ALL colors should obey the laws.
Donna Corrigan, Bloomingdale, IL. People would not be so afraid of the changes happening with racial imbalance in our country if laws weren’t being broken,...
Judge my soul Not my color.
Gloria Bozor, West Orange, NJ. Monmouth University I attended a dominate white college for my undergrad degree. For four years professors, staff, as well as...
The grief cycle of being white.
Theresa Martinez, Ontario, OR. In my journey to understand who I am and what I stand for, I have gone through the entire cycle of...
Fear and reconciliation: oil and water
Dirk Elting, Honolulu, HI. People cannot reconcile their differences when they do not feel safe. We scare (and anger) one another not only through our...
The anger is legitimate. I am trying.
Matilda, Australia. When people of colour direct anger at white people – at me – I used to be defensive. I’ve learnt a lot since...
1610 – bible used to bless slavery
Lisa Smith, Boston, MA. In 1610 Catholic priest asked his superiorsif slavery was condoned by God. Answer came back…none of more learned men of cloth...
Try talking about race – anger explodes
Nell Kuhnmuench, East Lansing, MI. Not now – I am trying to learn each day without getting defensive.
