My Hair is NAPPY and HAPPY
Cynthia Detroit, MI Growing into my African heritage in America, I love to wear my hair how it naturally grows. I get the stares of...
Different colors, same on the inside
Nathan S Detroit, MI With all of the talk of racial tensions in the US today, it is important to remember that the only difference...
Plain ol’ white. No I’m not.
Quinn Woods Detroit, MI It’s always bugged me, that when it comes to filling out “race” on things such as applications, the only thing that...
You’re pretty for a dark-skinned girl.
Taesha Detroit, MI I think almost every dark-skinned black girl goes through a phase (that hopefully she grows out of) where she doesn’t believe she...
She’s pretty for a black woman.
Mary Detroit, MI My dad was born in 1906 and would say this about perhaps the first black female anchor on a Detroit TV station;...
Black neighborhood. Stop light. Lock doors.
Ginny Adams North Platte, NE I learned this from my parents while growing up in Detroit; 60* years later I still find myself struggling not...
Which of your parents is white?
Crystal White Detroit, MI Growing up with a fair complexion in a place like Michigan is harder than most would think. With Detroit being pretty...
God loves me. ALL of me.
Matthew Neal Detroit, MI Nothing about who I am, where I am from, what I look like, and what I have done will ever have...
Detroit 1967 riot division,decline… reconciliation?
Zachary Terzich Ann Arbor, MI After July, 1967’s race riots, my grandfather and thousands of other white families abandoned the once “Paris of the Midwest”,...
Biracial by birth, Black by choice.
Kimberly Siple Detroit, MI This quote from The Black Socialite Blogspot helps explain my choice. ”although the ”one drop rule” law was ruled unconstitutional in...
“Intangible, yet I feel the effect.”
Faith Darnell Detroit, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan
‘Lynch Papers’ Atmosphere, finally being diluted.
Fred T Black Detroit, MI After so many years the atmosphere created by the Lynch papers among people of color, is finally dissipating. More and...
We Are All Created Equal-Lie
Lynne D. Green Detroit, MI Understanding Race Project – University of Michigan That’s what we hear in America and I haven’t seen any evidence of...
Does your mother know you’re here?
Dolly Szymanski Fort Wayne, IN Both of these quotes are things my mother heard or said The first quote – my mother was a child...
