Stopping myself from hating white people
Simone, Canada. I’m Asian-Canadian, and honestly, it’s kind of hard not to feel just plain alienated right now. It’s just gotten bad lately. The level...
Adopted from India lived in NH
Kayla Eckhoff, Denver, CO. I was just a year old when I was adopted, I was born in India and grew up in a small...
Sometimes I miss my old home.
Bethany, FL I just moved to the town where I am attending college and it hasn’t really become real to me yet that on the...
Difficult Childhood With A Racist Father
Anonymous, Omaha, NE. My mother is black and father who I never knew was latino. When I was 3 my mother met and married a...
All white childhood, now I’m learning.
Laura Haney, Fordland, MO Growing up in rural MO there were no black people. I never heard a racist remark growing up, I never heard...
I survived the white flight.
Misty Johnson, Lilburn, GA. I moved to Georgia in 1988 when I was 8 years old. My father left his job on the oil rigs...
Hated sunburns, wished I was black.
Donna Cook, Roseville, MN. I have very fair skin, Fitzpatrick Scale I, and growing up in Los Angeles meant lots of unintended, fairly serious, and...
duck duck brown duck, amidst greys
Chris Apriori Minneapolis, MN It was a childhood game… or so they thought. One I would play for the rest of my life. Now I’m...
Eeny. Meeny. Miney. Moe. Catch a…
Auguste Budhram, USA. Anyone who has ever been in the minority remembers the first time a word knocked the wind out of them. As a...
Raised to oppose prejudice, still oblivious
Wendy, Albany, NY. I was told outright my entire childhood (by mom and grandparents) to be not prejudiced. This seemed the height of progress. but...
A foreigner in my childhood home
Daryn Crowell Denver, CO I am a US citizen but my family moved to Peru when I was two years old. Basically my whole childhood...
I’m white. So you hate me.
Annie, Glen Burnie, MD. I keep seeing people saying fuck white people. I am anything but privileged. I had a black manager who hated me....
A Superficial Presumed Judgment of Humans
Kimberly Harwood Lakeville, MN I say this because I’m a white girl whom was blessed to have a Sudanese step-dad for most of her childhood....
Democracy has to be learned from childhood
Gunnevi Sweden We are all the same inside our bodies, no matter what your skin color you may have. Why does the mind of people...
Excruciating childhood. Beaten, tormented. Why? Jewish.
Beth A New Haven, CT My worst experience was in graduate school when an educated adult from a wealthy Connecticut town said “Oh, so THAT’s...
What am I? Kenyan, or American?
Nichole Coates Siloam Springs, AR I’m American by birth, but spent my entire childhood in Africa.
Second sorrow, childhood awareness of racism
Karen Davis Portland, OR First sorrow, family unable to love, second sorrow, learning of racism, still shocked 60 years later. How can this be? I...
