Where are you from? You’re exotic!
Abbie Elliott Leesburg, VA For my entire adult life, dating has been a challenge. As an Asian-American, I vehemently resisted falling into stereotypes. But, as...
I’m a Traitor to the Community
Samantha Foote, USA I live a conservative state and a conservative community. I teach at a local high school. Because I choose to discuss social...
Disabled Combat veterans also face discrimination
Stan Lightner, Elyria, OH. As a disabled combat vet I have been a target of discrimination on numerous occasions by “Christian” conservatives. Imagine how it...
Cold Stares Warm Smiles Evens Out
Eric Flores, Lubbock, TX. I am a Mexican-American or simply put American. I was born and raised in a conservative town. I was too Mexican...
Living liberal in a conservative home.
Quinn, Lake Elsinore, CA Both my parents are very conservative when it comes to politics and everything. I grew up learning from them, but once...
We are connected, all of us
Kelly White, Frisco, TX I am a white woman who people mistake as conservative. A simple way for me to think about the race issues...
Well…there’s so many minorities now…
Tony Reyes, Portland, OR. I’m half Latino. My mother is a white, evangelical, conservative. I came home the night Obama was re-elected and asked if...
White Conservative #Don’t Assume I’m Racist
Quinn Meyer, Dubuque, IA Growing up a white, conservative male in a suburban Midwestern town automatically attaches labels to me. We all live with labels....
Please stop trying to justify racism.
Harper Grey, Philadelphia, PA I see too many white people saying being white makes them a scapegoat, and complaining that everyone calls them racist “just...
Don’t Hate Me Because I’m White
Julie Kendall, Duncan, OK. I feel stereotyped and judged just because I was born a white female and am considered a conservative, and am older....
Conservative Christian girl, liberal arts college.
A. Jones Selinsgrove, PA Coming from a very small, rural town in Southern Pennsylvania, I was thrown into what seems to me like a melting...
Wish I was not a racist
Brian Smith, Sugar Land, TX. Part of me wish I wasn’t racist. I did my best not to be like my parents when I was...
You’re going to prom with him?
Katie Bowles Linfield, PA I grew up in a conservative white Catholic/Christian family that tends to be very narrow-minded, especially in the older generations. I...
Christian conservative. Who will tolerate me?
Justice Poppe San Francisco, CA It seems that everyone is calling for “tolerance” and “acceptance”, and yet do they realize that when they call us...
