Why’d my black nanny love me?
Sharon Raven Clark, Mammoth Lakes, CA 83 yrs ago, Anna knew all about the continuing atrocities of whites against blacks…yet she loved me…why??? how could...
Why should we care so much?
Lulu, Depew, NY I understand that race is significant. I understand that it’s such a big part of people’s identities. I’m just wondering: why should...
Interracial family: whites stare, blacks care.
Aurlyn Ellyse Wygle, Lewisville, TX. My husband and I are both caucasian. We have decided to make adoption our “plan A” and have a particular...
I Say I Don’t Care, But…
Dakota Jenkins, Lexington, KY. While we may say that “oh I’m colorblind when it comes to race”, we all have those initial reactions that are...
To know someone is to care.
Renee Sumby, Washington, DC. Thanks Michele for an amazing keynote at Society for Human Resource Management’s Diversity & Inclusion Conference in Boston last week. People...
I’m the majority, I am forgotten
Kevin Grumbles, Springfield, OR. I am a 30 year old white male, no one cares if I succeed or fail because there are thousands more...
Half black, nobody knows or cares
Peter Nanula, Newport Coast, CA. I look white and was raised in mostly white areas, so no one knows I am half-black. Because they don’t...
The color black: say with care.
Anonymous, USA. The world we have created now makes it a challenge to say the word black.
Most white college students don’t care
Gene Gruber, Houghton, MI. College students don’t seem to care about racial inequality, On campus, there is a lot of racial diversity but off campus...
I shouldn’t care more than you.
Chrissy Iemma, San Diego, CA. I am a white woman. I have an interracial young adult son. The injustices that the African Amercican community face...
They’re black. Why do you care?
Sara Hofmann St. Petersburg, FL I used to work with kids in the foster care system, which required a lot of effort and hours. When...
