Our marriage, leap of faith, worked.
John Collinge, Bethesda, MD Zandra and I met in June 1978 as new Foreign Service Officers. Neither of us had dated interracially, we had to...
My child’s not your Learning Experience.
Beth Curren, Bethesda, MD We are a bi-racial family and have experienced the comments of others since the day we brought our child home from...
Racist parents from shame springs motivation
Ingrid Irigoyen, Bethesda, MD For the first decade of my life I lived with biological parents who were avowed racists. That experience was scarring because...
My husband calls me future girl.
Jennifer McCadney Bethesda, MD Growing up as a kid with a black dad and white mom in the late 70s and early 80s — in...
Let’s all un-hyphenate ourselves, as Americans.
Junga Kim, Bethesda, MD. Unite, not divide, Unhyphenate, not subdivide. We are all one species. Let’s act like it.
My husband and I won it.
Victoria True, Bethesda, MD. 15 years of my Miscegenated marriage have come and gone. I married a man who is beyond color blind. Case in...
Racism still exists, you can’t pretend.
Rachel Matheson, Bethesda, MD. I’m a member of Operation Understanding DC (OUDC) Class 20.
“Well you’re not like super Hispanic”
Christina Aviles, Bethesda, MD. “You don’t talk like most Hispanic girls do, you don’t wear your hair like them, you don’t listen to the same...
Red skin. Reservation. Relegated. Re-appropriated. Reimagined. Resolute.
Faith Roessel, Bethesda, MD. Georgetown Day I am Navajo Indian, born and raised on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. I now live in the “bubble”...
Fear and hatred are always present.
Stephen Levitas, Bethesda, MD. Georgetown Day School This is what we are up against. It is what must be dissolved.
