You like this type of music?
Valkyrie Hall, Janesville, WI I grew up very diverse with music since I grew up around many people from country to rap, so sometimes people...
Proudly hispanic, only viewed as Caucasian
Rohyn Contreras-Schofield, Fitzwilliam, NH I grew up in rural NH surrounded by a white community which didn’t allow me to embrace my hispanic/latino side, I...
What do you think my ancestry is?
Daniel, Charlotte, NC. I do not want to say what country I am from, because I want you all to guesstimate my ancestry? Where would...
Somewhere between Salsa and Country!
Stephanie Connors Eureka, CA Music is one of my biggest reminders of the cultures that I grew up with. It fills me with nostalgia and...
My children can never be president.
Barbara Lewis Madison, AL It has been said that one thing that makes this country great is that any child can grow up to be...
Go back to the country you’re from!
Belsy Montufar, Lake Forest, CA As a Hispanic myself, there have been multiple instances in which I have felt too white to be Hispanic, and...
I’m not from the country ‘White’.
Matthew Palavido Beaumont, CA My family’s background is Polish and Swedish and the town I grew up in in New Jersey was predominantly “white”. Like...
Cut normal white people some slack.
Aimee Castro-DiGiovanni, Scottsdale, AZ. It’s disappointing to know the color of my skin, in the eyes of others, seems to define me. It doesn’t. My...
Go back, stop destroying my country
Rajiv Perera VA A chat message I received from a colleague on 9/11
The confederacy did not raise me.
Emily, Philadelphia, PA. I am a white American. My family is here because the Turkish government was committing genocide against Anatolian Greeks in the early...
This country belongs to Native Americans.
Lewis Hernandez, Milwaukee, WI. White people, raped, murdered and stole this country from the American Indian. Now it’s one America. One white. One Black. One...
Ready to listen to your story
Karen Orellana, Suwanee, GA. Last year I joined a group that focused on finding civil ways to improve the polarization in this country. We work...
Divisiveness planted to keep us distracted
Kelly O’Brien Pruitt, Houston, TX. I love living in a multicultural City. I love seeing different sizes and shapes and colors, different combinations of ethnic...
This is just who I am
Yeonsu Park, Korea We’re just the same human beings. I want to live equally without discrimination in any race. There are many prejudices about Korea....
Got an accent. In five languages
Ioana Hojda, Aberdeen, SD Immigrant, white wife of an African immigrant and mother to mixed boys. We have moved to the US from Italy, our...
I can’t look away anymore. JUSTICE!
Beth Feagan, Berea, KY White folks have the luxury of not thinking about race, and that’s a problem. We are coded as “normal” or “default”...
