Change will take another generation
David Bennett Park City, UT I am a criminal justice consultant. I was working in a major southern city and an elected official said to...
Set an example/Be the Change
Amanda Hemet, CA I know how it feels to be judged only on the color of your skin. In 8th grade during the LA riots...
Place change in my hand, please.
Gwendolyn Simmins Hope Mills, NC There are customer service people who give change by placing it on the counter instead of placing the change into...
Blacks shunned me trying to communicate
Rayna Delaney Pharr, TX This occurred to me in 1969 as I started college. I was a naïve white girl from a rural all-white neighborhood....
“The World changes, people don’t change.”
Jim Evangelista Eugene, OR This was a saying my grandfather, Ludovico Spadafora from Palermo, Sicily, often intoned. He had many pearls of wisdom and this...
Thought more would change in 60’s
Robin Bass Brooklyn, NY I’m glad for the progress made…but frustrated that we still have so far to go
My grandfather would hate my children
Chad Oiastad Madison, WI Just that I’m glad social norms have changed. Anyone who views my mixed race kids as anything other than just kids...
Be white, but not too white
Carissa Stouwie Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan My butt is very sun burnt, and not willingly. I am a ginger. I...
Race’s implications are real, must change.
Taine Stoll Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project, University of Michigna As a scientist, I know that there is no biological proof to our perceived...
Race colors perception, diversity changes it
Brian Konz Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan
I don’t hate who you hate
Ann H. Baltimore, MD I am always amazed and mostly saddened that people will use slurs or other hateful speech and assume I agree with...
Sure, but would you marry one?
Tom Bethesda, MD When my (white) mother worked at NAACP in the 60’s my Dad infamously questioned her sincerity. Mom died a decade ago. Dad...
