Left Crying in the Bathroom Floor
Charlie, USA. I brought my car in for an oil change (in the predominantly black area I live in) and they told me that it’d...
White people got off the train.
Keith Pacheco, Langhorne, PA Sometime 1982-83. I took my German foreign exchange student to Chicago to visit the Museum of Science and Industry. We took...
Thankful mom embraced non-white cultures too.
Adrianne Tomkinson, Aurora, IL I am white. I am female. I grew up poor with black, brown, white and yellow neighbors. I loved and felt...
10 Mile Move Flipped the Grid
Tessa D, Chicopee, MA. As a young child, we moved from a mostly black neighborhood to a nearly all white suburb. The background music of...
He exclaimed, “Ghetto Girl Makes Good!”
Laura Ann Lane, Chicago, IL. I was a paralegal at a large firm and the partners knew I was applying to law school. When a...
White bullying in black territory
Anonymous, Elkhart, IN Black people will target a white person in a black neighborhood or inside institutions where blacks are superior. Beat them call them...
What white neighborhood has MLK high?
Karen Gold, Atlanta, GA. Collected during: Six Word Stories on Education Last fall, ProPublica and The Race Card Project teamed up with two Tuscaloosa, Ala.,...
Be mighty whitey not humble honkey
Todd Johnston, Baltimore, MD. Tired of the violence and racism towards productive working white folks that gets swept under rug and buried by the media....
The difference between realism and racism.
Danny Denzler, Wichita Falls, TX. There’s a difference between being realistic and being racist. Police profiling isn’t racist. Look at the facts. Who commits the...
White males are people too
John Chaney, Silver Spring, MD. Being a white male growing up in predominantly black and spanish schools and neighborhoods all you ever hear is hate...
Only Black Kids In The Neighborhood
Jeremy Murray, Tuscaloosa, AL. Growing up my family moved around the country a lot. My brother and I had to attended many different schools but...
Flatbush Ruined When Blacks Moved In
Will Johnson, Omaha, NE. My father tried to ignore the crime and filth that appeared in the early 1970 in Flatbush, until he at the...
Another black baby born too soon.
Anonymous, Brookline, MA. After growing up in a predominantly black town (Bloomfield, CT) as the daughter of Northern, white liberals, I became a nenatologist. Racial...
White In Oklahoma….Unwanted Racist Thoughts
Taryn, Tulsa, OK. Being white in Oklahoma for the last 15 years is annoying sometimes. I grew up in a very tolerant family in CT...
No One Is Better Than You…
Kim Skillern Samuels, Cleveland Heights, OH. I lived in a neighborhood of black people, and went to an inner city public school. When friends found...
Affirmative Action Killed Southern White Middleclass
Blue Hamilton Spruce Pine, NC Having grown up poor and white in the deep south in the 1960’s, it was common to hear racial slurs...
Black neighborhood. Stop light. Lock doors.
Ginny Adams North Platte, NE I learned this from my parents while growing up in Detroit; 60* years later I still find myself struggling not...
