My kids know of black presidents
Kim Callahan Portland, OR I am a white single mom, my son and daughter (11 & 10) are siblings I adopted from Haiti. For all...
I am the lone black parent….
Rackley Love, Mars, PA. The alienation that I have experienced as a parent is an enigma. Like them, I am a stay at home mom....
I saw them in the back
Dennis Jack Higgs Saint Peters, MO I was raised in West Texas in the 50’s and 60’s. Although racism was rampant around us, we were...
Only whites can end racism
Gay White, W. Bloomfield, MI. I am a product of the civil rights movement and I watched racism go underground until we had a Black...
We were people, before the chains!
Gwen Montgomery, Dallas, TX. This country took a race of people and turned them into second class citizen. Many of our problems are a result...
Injustice Should Never Be An Option
Kayla McDermott-Cobbs, Long Branch, NJ. Monmouth University The United States of America is a place that is constantly changing and evolving. We have grown, as...
But he touched the Black President.
Submitted via Twitter: @Only4RM @michele_norris, #6words, #TheRaceCardProject How the RW GOP fringe took down Charlie Crist in FL (now a D) & how they attacked Chris...
Black AND White, no clear fit.
Barbara Jones, Albuquerque, NM. I was raised with a Northern European bias by Mom and family, my Black birth father not really being in the...
Respect for black President; my dream
Susan Cooper Alexandria, VA I’m not black, but I really wish that more Americans would show some respect for our first black President.
Superior Race There’s No Such Thing
Ramon Gonzales Sacramento, CA Growing up I can clearly remember saying that whites were the superior race in this country wheter it was being used...
Civil Rights era needs extended now
Sheila Katzman Brooklyn, NY We got too comfortable after the civil rights act, hence the disrespect for the US president in 2014.
Their war is now our battle
Drew Powell Bangor, ME When the American Civil War ended 150 years ago, slavery was abolished in the United States, and the war between whites...
White mom of bi-racial child forgotten.
Peggy Person Cleveland, TN I have always been so disappointed in “America”, for labeling bi-racial, or mixed race children as one race or the other....
