Every Race Has Been A Slave
Jimmy Naughton Colorado Springs, CO Why does any race deserve restitution for their hardships? Every race has been enslaved, yet today’s discussions only ever focus...
Playing by everyone’s rules is exhausting
Anonymous, Madison, WI. To Fred down the street I’m half-Asian; to Nick the bus driver I’m from southern France; Veronica thinks I’m obviously Native; McKayla...
White woman wondering why racism exists
Kelsi Webb, Malakoff, France I am a 30-year-old white woman wondering why racism even exists. I’ve never noticed a person by their skin color. Sure,...
Mon Dieu! Mais vous êtes blanche!
Shari Miller Polk City, IA My junior year of college, I was studying abroad in Paris, France. I had joined a gym while over there,...
Wait… how is he your brother?
Brenna, France. When my brother was born, my mom told my sister and I that she hated the word “half.” She didn’t believe that the...
The “Non-Aztec” Looking Mexican
Claire Rainey, Los Alamitos, CA. I have a friend from Spain who I adore. He is gay, I am a Christian. One day we were...
I hate whites for their hatred
Elle, France. I cannot see them as good people. They have oppressed so many minority groups – historically and to the present day – then...
Sale Juif avait disparu de mon language …
Michel Weelen, France Né à la fin des années 50, j’ai vu l’antisémitisme revenir dans mon pays dans les années 90 alors que je pensais...
I eat frogs but ain’t one.
Christophe Teulet-Cote, Boston, MA Emigrated to the US from France. Proud Franco-American!!!
I wish I could fully understand.
Hilary E. Cooke West Lafayette, IN I was unsure how to answer “where I am” because I am currently on sabbatical in France, but I...
Hola? Ciao? Non? Where you from?
Jessica Aubrey France I just moved to Paris, France from the United States. My mother is Brazilian but my dad is a blonde haired, blue-eyed...
The French pilot said, “You’re American”!
Raymond R. Rochester III, Elkins Park, PA. It was 1981, me being 31 years old … I was on my way to Paris, France …...
Where do you REALLY come from?
Deborah Lenoir-Hebert Antananarivo, Madagascar I grow up in France (provence) with my white-adoptive-parents and come from Madagascar, which used to be an ancient french colony....
