Not as respected, just as accountable.
Steve F Macon, GA Black male teenagers are required to register for Selective service. Like every other American male. Our safety is in more jeopardy...
Teaching my kids to see people.
Mike L. Atlanta, GA I grew up in Atlanta GA during the 60’s. While I loved my grandparents I couldn’t understand why they thought the...
Life is unchanging revolving around race
Andie Sandy Springs, GA Everyone always judges based on appearance this one this remains the same as life goes on.
African Americans were slave owners too.
Leonard Henry Atlanta, GA Check out this scholarly book, Black Slaveowners: Free black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860, by Larry Koger ISBN 0-89950-160-5. Also...
Sugar’s will: $500/acre, $1500/slave
Carolyn B. Smith Atlanta, GA Shugan Ransome Davis (“Sugar”) was my great great great grandfather. He was from Halifax, NC but moved in 1824 to...
Racism is shameful and diminishes us.
Teresa Lynn Rutledge Lilburn, GA Growing up in the South, I saw racism that was accepted because “that was just the way it was.” But...
Why do you want to know?
Susan Payne Powder Springs, GA Unsettling questions aimed at you or your relatives can be rude and unnecessary, so a soft response can even the...
You’re not just white, are you?
Erica Gonzalez Fayetteville, GA I heard this from an old white man when I was 17 years old. Now, 22, I will take some advice...
Words are taken out of context.
Anonymous Atlanta, GA Sometimes when people write articles about race, they tend to take things out of context and just take a blurb to make...
White doesn’t define me, I’m American
RaSean Tisinger, Waleska, GA It always bothers me that we refer to ourselves as African American, Jewish American, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, European, ect. We are...
