Who does your little girl’s hair?
Ernest Fabrizio Garcia New Fairfield, CT Neither of us are African-American, but our children are. There seems to be a conception that doing black hair...
Why aren’t we persecuted any more?
Linda Bronstein, West Hartford, CT The Jewish people have been the target of hate for thousands of years, in just about every country in the...
We’re Here Walking Each Other Home
R. Flowers Rivera, McKinney, TX. The most aware I’ve ever been of race was when my family moved from Gulfport, Mississippi, to New Fairfield, Connecticut,...
I don’t understand why race still matters.
Barbara Coughlin, Berlin, CT I’m a Boomer of Irish descent. I grew up on Staten Island. From the time I was 11 (the oldest of...
Saw me honky, until I helped.
Frank Dobis, Simsbury, CT In 1972 I worked in a steel mill. After a snowstorm stopped bus service, I gave a ride home to a...
How can I use this privilege?
Susan Nappi, Middlebury, CT It is interesting to me that when I am asked for six words about race my heart becomes heavy. I am...
You know why they chose you?
Alan Smith, Angier, NC. This was said to me by an instructor, as an 18-year old US Navy sailor, having just completed submarine training in...
Friends Family and the pursuit of success
Colin James Decker, New Preston, CT I think that these six words mean the most to me and my everyday life. I also believe that...
Parents gave me Confederate flag: protection
Steve Morris, Seattle, WA. In the mid-1950s my father made a business trip from our home in Connecticut to Florida and back. He decided to...
“You’re Hispanic?,” he said. “Prove it!”
Irmie S. Bristol, CT I grew up in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. Both of my parents were from Puerto Rico but were of Spanish ancestry,...
Slavery’s legacy broke my family pride.
Katherine E. Byroade, West Hartford, CT. When I was a child, my southern grandmother took great delight in the fact that she was a Jamestown...
It is exhausting living this way.
Delfina Bernucca, Kensington, CT. I am first generation born in USA and grew up in a 70s and 80s Midwest farming community where I was...
Evolve beyond one’s name; embrace Justice.
John Charles Taney IV Stamford, CT I am a descendant of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (pronounced Taw-nee), author of one of the most universally...
Trindijew? Jindidadian? … I give up. “Other.”
Priya Charry, Middletown, CT. Much too complicated to be expressed in a single word. Jewish father of Eastern European descent, Trinidadian mother of Indian descent.
