No white Barbies for this one.
Samantha Williams, Pensacola, FL. My father is black and my mother is Filippino. I was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where the majority of...
Predjudice is more dangerous than racism
Ashton King, Canada Racial prejudices are more dangerous than racism itself which is now agreed to be a systemic issue. Prejudice requires a person to...
Together, but lonely …
Anonymous, Toronto, Canada I live with my white partner and his two white children. None of us knew that there would be a time when...
White people are still people
Sheila Parkins, Canada I’m so tired of all the racial ideologies going around today. I’m white. My parents are immigrants from Europe. Growing up in...
Ask him yourself if he’s black
Anne Gruel, Canada. My partner is from Jamaica and identifies as mixed race. His parents are black, but he has very light skin and has...
Only white kid in IB Math
Katherine P., Canada. I live in Toronto. Only white girl in a class of 30 students. My half white, half Korean friend is the next...
Indian student brown but still international
Simranjeet Kaur, Niagra College, Canada I do not understand much about that but still try to understand.
I love my beautiful Franco-Vietnamese children
Chantal Phan, Canada. Navigating a multi-cultural marriage is challenging, yes, but so awesome! I am always surprised by how much we have in common.
I am brown and I am Beautiful!
Jyotika Jaggi, Canada I would like to share my views on the stereotype that is still stuck to the people living in Asian countries: If...
White male forties need not apply
Allan Millard Canada As a young, white male I never really considered that I might be privileged for no other reasons than my age, sex...
Feel so helpless; solution’s so easy
Peter Skuce, London, Ontario, Canada. It seems so easy but it also seems impossible to change such ingrained attitudes.
Many fingers needed to hold tomorrow
William Hood Vancouver, B.C., Canada A successful tomorrow requires humanity to be connected as brothers and sisters for our children and grandchildren to survive and...
I am always half never whole.
Sabrina Fairchild, Canada. I’m a little disconcerted by how negative this sentence sounds, but it seems to accurately reflect how I’ve been characterized all my...
Life-saving blood transfusions aren’t race based
Margot B Newton, Canada. I worked in hospital transfusion services most of my life. Blood products saved lives…. from any ethnicity….to any ethnicity.
I am, am I, truly Canadian?
Yosh Kasuga, Canada. Canada has the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and embraces multiculturalism on the surface and yet I wonder why as someone born...
Ashamed of American Black culture today
Keville Bowen, Chester, PA. I’m a Black man of three countries. Born in Trinidad, moved Canada and ended in America. Though I have little memory...
Am I Mexican enough?
Brisa Gardiner, Canada I am very confused about my identity and what parts of my background are “mine to use”. I was born in Mexico...
