“You don’t look Iranian!” “I am.”
Rom Barkhordar, Chicago, IL This was a brief exchange with someone I just met who, to his defense, had a few beers and was feeling...
White husband became Iranian September eleventh.
Maren Robinson Chicago, IL I watched how my American-born half-Iranian husband went from being perceived as white (Iranians are Caucasian) to being perceived as vaguely...
Lifetime in slipstream of white flight
Richard Bacon Chicago, IL Mid 1970s living in perfectly nice middle class neighborhood in NE Dallas Texas. The desecration, by busing, of the neighborhood school...
Now 82, lynching, at 3
Florence L. Tate Sarasota, FL When I was three years old I sat with my grandparents around the fireplace and listened to my father reading...
Don’t be colorblind, be color appreciative.
Anonymous, Chicago, IL p>It’s just something I hear a lot people saying “I’m colorblind” and “I don’t see color” but no one is colorblind. Everyone...
God’s colorblind. I’m trying to be.
Greg Kaldahl, Chicago, IL If I believe – really believe – that we are all made in the image and likeness of God, then how...
My Black IS Beautiful
Rae Winfrey, Chicago, IL. It is so satisfying that black beauty is now viewed as a compliment and not an insult. Where we embrace our...
Singapore is a country? “Definitely America…”
Xanh Quang, Chicago, IL. The fact that this isn’t knowledge as basic and as practiced as a fact like the sky is blue or there...
Blessed to grow up in diversity
Rob Daniels, Bolingbrook, IL. I grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago at a time when our community worked extra hard to be racially...
Maybe I’m Being Too Cynical
Poppy Davis Chicago, IL Sometimes, even though affirmative action has done great things for minority races, I feel as a person of Asian descent, that...
Latinos overlooked in conversation on race
Brenda Ramirez, Chicago, IL You would think that only White and Black people exist in this country. What about the rest of us? There is...
White America Has Lost Too Many Jobs
David Johnson, Chicago, IL. As a Black man when I saw a lot of empty storefronts inside of the strip malls throughout Chicago’s suburbs, I...
Met your daughter now it matters
Charles McCoy Owens, Chicago, IL. Throughout my life, both professional and private, white people who are friends have said to me that race doesn’t matter...
The size of your eyes doesn’t matter.
Jessie Nguyen, Chicago, IL Whether your eyes are small, big, brown, blue, can’t see, etc., don’t focus on your eyes. Focus on anything else than...
Western Michigan meets Korea near Chicago
Mark Cooper Lafayette, IN In elementary school, my best friend turned to me and said, “Mark, I don’t even think of you as asian anymore!”...
