White, Korean, southern, AND atheist
Melanie Mills,
NC.
I am 1/4 Korean, but I only look caucasian.
I live in the “Bible Belt”, but I am an atheist.
I am so much more than what I seem.
I am so much more than just WHITE.
Jew girl raised in Bible Belt
Caren Klein
York, ME
During 1970 my family lived in Texas with prayer in school. My teacher would walk over to me place my head down during prayer.
I’m more than just a color
Jasmyn Joseph,
Lithonia, GA.
I’m from Mobile, Al….. Bible Belt city, unfortunate my grandparents where witch doctors. My granny is half Black-American and Native Cherokee and grandfather was said to be Haitian. While my dad is a creole and Black-American mix. Yet, with some many mixtures in the boiling pot, I’m usually all the time mistaken for South African. So when I tell people my ethnicity, they make this comment “why are you so dark then,” and I say ” darker the berry sweeter the juice!”
Who turns knobs on closed doors?
Rachel P.,
Akron, OH.
If you never open your mind, how will you change? As a white person growing up in the Bible Belt, I was taught that any color other than white was inferior. I moved to a school in Dallas, where there were only 10 white students in a school of 800. I made friends with everybody, even though it was my first time as a minority.
After coming out and starting to date, I met a beautiful Bahamian woman that I fell in love with. Adding to the disparity of what we think about race in this country, she is more educated and accomplished than I am, but she’s had to push twice as hard. Although we are no longer together, I’ll be damned if I will only date and love people of my own race and culture. I’m sure my family would disapprove. Open your mind, there’s change to be had!
