I’m white, my family is mixed.
Kristin Weaver Tlili, Bangor, ME My sons are a beautiful combination of Ohio and North Africa living in New England. I never wanted to have...
My race does not define me
Kristin Koby, Palm Bay, FL. I was put up for adoption before I was even born. A loving white family of 7 took me in...
Every Race Has Been A Slave
Jimmy Naughton Colorado Springs, CO Why does any race deserve restitution for their hardships? Every race has been enslaved, yet today’s discussions only ever focus...
What do you people call Grandma?
Anonymous, Bethel, CT I’m Caucasian and raised as a Jew. She was Catholic and my daughter’s mother-in-law. I thought that was the only difference between...
I’m Catholic; Therefore I’m a Minority
Thomas Paul Lachowsky, Topeka, KS. Where’s my affirmative action?
Whitefish Bay white school white Church
Mark Brandfass. Pittsburgh, PA. In the summer of ’63 my family had just moved to Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. My father was a salesman for Westinghouse...
Being biracial and adopted is complicated
Lauren Juanita Hines, Alexandria, VA. I am the American melting pot personified: born to a Mexican father and Caucasian (white, mostly Irish) mother, raised by...
White = Christian, I’m not, I’m Jewish
Janice Cagan-Teuber, Arlington, MA To me, “White” has always meant “Christian”. I grew up in a neighborhood that was 99.9% Catholic. We were the only...
You’re Indian AND Catholic?! No way!
Josie H Australia I am a Catholic Indian. The middle school I went to was not Catholic, and when I graduated into high school (which...
God painted the world in color
Cassidy Capoferri, Wayne State, Macomb, MI Growing up Catholic and in Catholic schools, we were always taught that God loves everyone, no matter what. He...
Terrified, we watched them set fires
Sarah Martinez-Helfman, Philadelphia, PA Every key decision I made in my life seems to go back to that defining moment, when I walked away from...
White privileged with a blended family
Anonymous, Saint Paul, MN. I grew up northern CA in a very middle class well to do with family that was racially homogeneous with a...
Scotch tape no longer clings here.
Malcolm Ian Mackenzie, Naples, NY. My mom and Dad immigrated from Canada in the early fifties with two children Canadian-born and eleven were born in...
I always knew I was different.
Coleen Owens Katy, TX We (my sisters and I) were often the “minority” – growing up in a military household and moving often – whether...
I didn’t know they were different.
Tina S. Walther, Milan, MI. My mother was pregnant with me when she moved from upstate NY to the south in 1962. While the weather...
White, Daughter, Italian, Counselor, Catholic, Dumb-Blonde
Anonymous, West Long Branch, NJ. Monmouth University
Constant awareness is difficult but necessary
Mark Reiter Drake University Des Moines, IA I grew up in a very white Catholic community. I always understood that there was more to the...
