Colorblind childhood, learned to see.
Kira Miller, Petoskey, MI Growing up in a predominantly white town with a mixed-race best friend, I initially didn’t think much about race. My friend...
“You can’t say that stuff here”
Danielle R, San Francisco, CA. Someone in response to their friend’s racial slur at a party… How about you can’t say that stuff anywhere? Racism...
Friend James Green Jackson State Dead
Andy Shores Starkville, MS A track star, nicknamed ‘winged feet’ for his prowess in his chosen sport — he worked in a small grocery store...
Just how you are, my friend.
Amberly Richins, Rigby, ID. Through my experiences living in another country for a couple years I’ve learned that the most rewarding feeling in the world...
Everybody else is potentially a friend.
Christina, Camarillo, CA I taught PE in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 12 yrs. During Homeroom, we taught our students the “Character Counts...
My dear friend’s current life below
Susan Nickason, Penfield, NY. Listening to the news this evening about the Charleston shooting, I hear “what harms our neighbor, harms us” This speaks to...
Taunted guero: friends and foes alike
Ken Romig, Albuquerque, NM. There is racial and cultural insensitivities in everyone.
No, I won’t do your homework
Dillon Pham, CA. As a person who enjoys volunteering and helping others, I typically don’t mind if my friends or fellow classmates ask me for...
I don’t know Inez’s last name.
Rosemary Brinson Siipola, Kalama, WA. Reflecting on growing up in Duplin County, North Carolina, my Grandma Cora was the matriarch of a large family. Inez...
Fake friends slandered my wife’s ethnicity.
Gary Kraemer Phoenix, Metro Area, AZ Two different former friends put up hate speech about people of my wife’s ethnicity on the internet. They were...
Bad time for Blue; Always Black
Tim Wagner, Fairfield, CT Come from a conversation I was having with friends. One friend saying how it was a bad time to be a...
I am not just a Mexican
USA. I am an artist I am a reader I am a writer I am a friend I am a sister I am a daughter...
