Aspiration to equality, struggle with assumptions
Lincoln Ferris Seattle, WA When meeting someone we don’t know, our ancestral mind seeks to confirm “are they one of mine, or not.” That means...
Yes, I am her biological mother.
Mira Tanna Orlando, FL My father is from India, my mother from the Netherlands, and I am married to a man from Nigeria. I look...
Graduate degree brown, not nanny brown.
Elisa Espitia Palmdale, CA It’s not where you came from, but where you’re going. Assumptions
I am a “real” Black person.
Maya Segirah Los Angeles, CA I have heard this all my life, exclusively from white people (ok, men) , who, for some arrogant reason, think...
Painful regret about an assumption made.
Anonymous Ann Arbor, MI The year was 1997. I was part of a small committee selecting MBAs for highly sought-after internships in China. I wasn’t...
Afropean-American, I made it up.
Laura Kupe Ann Arbor, MI My parents are originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, I was born in Germany, raised in Luxembourg and Metro-Detroit....
I bet they’re good at math.
Steve Titterton Lindenwold, NJ I’m white, and the father of two Asian children. Went into that thinking that race was irrelevant if I thought so,...
Race. Tells. You. Nothing. About. Me.
D Harris Wilmington, DE I’m amused at the assumptions that many people make about a person based on their race even if they are a...
“I’m not racist,” but assumptions betray.
Emily Caffery Ann Arbor, MI Submitted via NPR: Talk of the Nation
