Waiting for, “Are you the nanny?”
Emily Miller Oakland, CA I shouldn’t have been surprised when my youngest daughter was born with White skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair. She looks...
Inescapable mulatto nature of American culture
Submitted via Twitter: @zerode San Francisco, CA A quote from jazz critic Albert Murray. More about Albert Murray: Taken from Albert Murray, an African American...
Where are your parents from? Earth.
Alice L. Costa Mesa, CA I always get asked “Where are you from”. Answer: LA. Where are your parents from?: Earth. Why is it that...
Kids in behavior class all black.
Michelle Baird Berkeley, CA My daughter is in a fairly diverse elementary school. She is African-American, I am white. She commented one day on the...
NOT a singer- a Black violinist.
Danielle Taylor Oakland, CA Yes, we really exist. Thank you for doing this Michele. It is incredibly important.
The price of privilege is fear
Erika Malinoski Oakland, CA When I was in college, I ran psychology experiments on volunteer college students, and I was always perfectly comfortable running the...
I can count my brown friends.
Liz Hohl Oakland, CA Race is so intrinsically linked and correlated to wealth, education, and power. I frequently consider my surroundings and realize how few...
Hidden minority under my white skin.
Lisa Aragon Duque San Diego, CA Growing up Hispanic from New Mexico, in Hawaii, mistaken for a white girl. I was neither accepted nor rejected....
And I have several black friends!
Christy Berger San Francisco, CA Being non racist in our day to day lives is great, but it is not the same as being anti...
Are you sure you are Black?
Saundra Davis San Francisco, CA Biracial before it was cool…people often refuse to accept that I’m a Black woman…or they assume I would rather be...
Everyone’s different, so deal with it
Christopher Sandoval Irvine, CA This may seem like a statement for someone to tell others, but its something I have to privately tell myself. I...
