Fear and hate only bring sadness.
Lantien Chu Lander, WY I am Chinese and get profiled as Native American, followed in stores, refused for rentals. Kids have asked me if I...
Raised by racists in denial.
Amanda S. McPherson, KS The people in my life have know idea how motivated by prejudice they truly are; I often fear I don’t either.
Gangsta rap taints white people’s perceptions
Paul Houston, TX Most early rap music with which I’m familiar was about innocuous subjects. When gangsta rap hit the scene and sprouted a sub-culture...
Jesse Jackson fears black youths: racism?
Michael Trigoboff Tigard, OR Even Jesse Jackson said a few years ago, “There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the...
Subconscious shame breeds fear then violence
Colleen Stanturf Davis, CA With a disproportional number of black men in prison, the cycle of violence really has not been broken since slavery days....
Trayvon was running from Jeffery Dahmer.
Todd Richey Atlanta, GA We tell our Black Kids that all strange Whitemen are Jeffery Dahmer. We need to have this conversation.
Stop Fearing Those Who Are Different
Charles Wright Hernando, MS I think fear is the basic emotion that fosters racism. The comfort zone gets compromised by all the stereotypes, then the...
Racism is fear; fear is senseless.
Jeffrey Deffenbaugh Kensington, MD I grew up in what was the most diverse zip code in the country at the time in the sixties, 20895....
I hate being black in America
Myra Evans Cleveland Heights, OH Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation
Beautiful differences made ugly by fear
Johnny Barmore Cincinnati, OH Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation
