We owe our plight to Taney
Sheldon, Coral Springs, FL. There are two types of law – one for whites and one for BLACKS. The Civil Rights Movement accomplished a great...
Why African-American? Why not just American?
Manuel Lluberas Jacksonville, FL Africa is not a country or a culture. It is a continent with almost fifty countries, several hundred tribes and as...
Southern white privilege and racial ambivalence.
David Painter Winter Springs, FL I had a black southern Mammy in 1963 (who I adored), graduated from private, elite, lily-white high school in 1981,...
“Ghetto” is the new “N-word”
M. Griffin Tampa, FL As a public high school teacher I hear this word thrown around often and generally it is applied to brown skinned...
It sucks being black in America.
Rosna Delucca Pompano Beach, FL Growing up on a small island, I was colorblind. I didn’t know that one day the color of my skin...
“We don’t know what y’all are..”
David Huang Orlando, FL The story behind this statement goes like this, I was with a group of my friends, which consisted of mostly Asian-Americans...
Black successful professional; not an oxymoron.
VeeVee Jacksonville, FL There are times when people are honestly surprised that I am a successful African American woman. Due to my race, people have...
Go back to your own country
Miguel Toral Ocala, Fl I am a Latino with a mom from Nebraska and a father from Ecuador. I was born in Washington,D.C., but when...
