Este hombre es un negro blanco!
Isaias Ortiz Davenport, FL Este hombre es un negro blanco! This man is a white black. The first time I heard that phrase was circa...
Educated man people see only black
Jason Adams Wichita, KS I have fought to educated myself so I could raise my family into the middle class but at every job I...
Teach in Japan, but you’re black
Dee Moore, Shreveport, LA. Hajimemashite! That is the stigma I am always facing in my community. I am a 25 year old African American educator...
I Am Not White Or Black
Matthew, TX. Black, White, Asian, or Pink with Purple polka dots – your skin color is not who you are. Do not obsess over the...
Black~Soulful~Queen~Loving~My~Skin
Ebonee Small, Ontario, CA. I am a young black woman proud of the skin I’m in. I love my race of people when those who...
My black daughter needs extra protection.
Brenda Bielke, Submitted via Twitter: @brendabie. @michele_norris, #theracecardproject
“No offense, but you’re so pretty!”
K.E. Broadnax, Cleveland, OH. This was said to me while attending college. I am black, and went to a predominantly white, upper-class university (as many...
Black, he fixed it and me.
Winslow Parker Portland, OR Back story: She was from upstate New York, I from San Diego; both of us from snow-white neighborhoods. It was 1971....
Wow, I can’t believe you’re black!
Kelsi Evans, Williamsburg, VA. Growing up in society I have always been questioned about my race. I come from two very, very light-skinned African-American parents,...
Black with dreads and white husband
Tiffany Yizar, Norwalk, CT. My blackness and black cultural authenticity is never questioned, until people discover I have a white husband. As if his race...
I’m light skinned but still black
Tarnaei Carter, Chicago, IL. I am light skinned and people may think I’m not only black because I’m light skinned so I identify as black.
Son, indignant: I have the right to be!
Joann MO Submitted via NPR’s Talk of the Nation My six words are actually two, six word conversations between a black father and son about...
We are such stuff as dreams
Winnie Wamboi, Kenya. I don’t get the big deal with being either black or white. I am African and I love it after all there...
Free Black since at least 1820
Sherryl N Weston, Denver, CO. I was an adult before we learned the full scope of my mother’s complete ancestry story. Timbuctoo, NJ was co-founded...
I wish that Race meant EQUALITY.
Becky White Feather Riney, Quincy, IL. I am Native American and Caucasian. I hate knowing that there are people out there that simply because of...
