Your location influences your perceptions
Dylan, GA I grew up on the west coast, and my community was culturally diverse (whites, Asians, Hispanics). However, my community had a low population...
Racial stereotypes…killing mankind…hearts blind?
Amber Jackson Baswell, Columbus, MS. As a military brat I was naïve, sheltered. It was only when my father was stationed in the deep South...
She’s White in a Black body….
Cooper Shell, Jackson, TN. She’s White in a Black Body….. That is what has ALWAYS been said to describe me—since I was at least 12...
I’m genuinely sorry about my family.
Katy Wilkerson, Houston, TX. In the deep South, in my experience, racism is pervasive, especially when you talk about poorer and poorer white people (not...
White Privilege makes me very bitter
Jessica McMurtry, Collins, GA. I am white, yes, but it makes me very bitter when other white people refuse to see how being another “race”...
You don’t look Latina at all!
Maria Victoria Salazar, Mobile, AL. Hi! My heritage is a little more complicated than others’, especially here in the Deep South. I have roots in...
Miss Lillian’s casserole. Five years late.
Ellison Weist Portland, OR I grew up in the Deep South, the white child of parents who championed Civil Rights in the 1960s. Yet it’s...
Teach the truth….THE WHOLE TRUTH!
M. D. K. C., Deep South, USA. At some point in history, the powers that be thought it best to skew history. I’m sure the...
