Delaware, Kiowa, Comanche, Mexican, Oh My!
Kristina T., Oklahoma City, OK. I’m half Native American and half Mexican. I have 3 tribes’ blood that runs through my veins along with Mexican...
The whitest brown girl I know.
Catherine Marden El Cerrito, CA My mother is from El Salvador. My father is from Kentucky. I grew up in rural Oregon. I didn’t know...
What am I? Dirty but clean
R. E. Longdon Clarksville, PA My family complexion has always been called dirty or ruddy. My ancestors came from Europe through England but family folklore...
So wish it didn’t matter still.
Sharla Yeutsy Urbandale, IA I’m a white 73 year old grandmother of seven who has always lived in the midwest. I am grateful that I...
Travesty, Left By Many For Many
Gina Dabbah, Seaside, CA. The opinion of our ancestors left a battle waging hard and strong. This battle has spilt blood, split families, friends, and...
We bleed the same color: RED
Grace Terrfy, Tampa, FL. People are hung up on color but our lifeline is our blood and that’s where we are all the same color....
Mixed: beaten for looking “too white”
Selena “Jazz” Baker Salisbury, MD Tonight makes three years since my assault. There was blood on the sidewalk when I walked to work this morning....
Racism kills: all blood is red.
MIRIAM L. IOSUPOVICI Imperial Beach, CA I am the child of Holocaust survivors. I grew up with ghosts of murdered family. Nobody needs to tell...
We all bleed red, ’nuff said!
Margaret Samuel IL I grew up in Dallas, overcame my parents’ “seperate but equal (kind of)” thinking, don’t feel dislike or hatred of any people...
Blood doesn’t make me Native American.
Anonymous Burke, VA As a child of two culture I was always on the outside of both.
But you don’t even look European…?
Marcia Wudy Indonesia I’m European, but Asian blood makes me look otherwise… People never believe me when I tell them I come from the Netherlands.
