Stop Thinking; Black. Start Thinking; Human.
Jim Wallin Lebanon, PA We won’t get “over” race until blacks stop looking for racism. Trust me, you don’t have to look. Saying someone is...
I’m not African American but still black.
Khemani G Orange, NJ It bothers me sometimes when I am filling something out and the race box says only African American when I am...
“You’re just ignorant” she countered back
Lane Gans Maplewood, MN A retort spoken by Ashley De Grande, a 1st grader at the time when another 1st grader told her they’ve never...
Simpson Acquited by Majority Black Jury
Anonymous St. Louis, MO Setting race relations back 25 years.
Black, White, Puerto Rican. I am all.
Paul Hobson Douglasville, GA My paternal great-grandfather was white who loved my great grandmother who was a slave. They lived together as one because they...
There used to be only four
Manuel J Bascuas Miami, FL In school, many years ago, I was taught that they were four: white, black, yellow and red. According to some...
But you’re not white, white.
Anonymous, Baltimore, MD It was intended to be a compliment from a African-American woman to myself. I took it as that in the moment. Later...
He couldn’t get away with this
Tracy Audette Brooklyn Park, MN My awareness as our son’s bus driver (black male) watched me (upper-middle class white woman) chew out a police officer...
“Check car locks because I’m black”
Cindi Knox Joliet, IL I am often unsure I locked the car doors, so I give the fob a couple presses to hear the horn....
