The Graceful Dance of Racial Inequality
Makael James, Chicago, IL Racial Inequality has been around since our great great great great grandparents have been around. In today’s generation it looks different...
Tenth generation American, still asked origin.
Leah Perlongo, Sunapee, NH. Ever been asked “Where are you from?” and the answer they expected was not the town you were born, but a...
I am white. So?
Alan S. Doctor, Cambria, CA. I was born in San Francisco on 15 Sep 1930. Dad was Scotch/English and Mom was Polish with a dash...
Married, male, 65, grey, overweight, invisible.
Terry Campbell Concord, CA How amazing it’s been to pass from the viability of youth to become the unseen senior. It’s hard to comprehend as...
Almost OK that I am childless
Carol A. Los Angeles, CA As an African American woman of a certain age I feel a sense of failure that our generation has not...
We’re one people on one planet.
Jedd Birkner, Torrance, CA. Race is a social construct. Prejudice is a way of expressing ignorance and fear. Senseless hatred is passed from generation to...
Racism; as American as apple pie
Malcolm Harris Jarvis, San Diego, CA. Unfortunately, the apple does not fall far from the tree leading, in many cases, to generations of racists. Racism...
“It’s okay; I’ll go this way”
Erica Campagnaro Cleveland, OH I heard these words as I was briskly walking down a main aisle at a market, looking over my right shoulder...
It doesn’t matter. You look foreign.
Michiko Minoura USA I’m second generation Japanese American. This was a comment made to me by a student I met my first year in college....
Coconut. Brown outside and White inside.
Yvonne Rosenberg, Sioux Falls, SD. Born and raised in Fort Worth, Tx. Raised by Mexican American Grandparents who grew up in a generation where Spanish...
I’m not part of the solution.
Marie Henehan, Sidney, IL. I’m European American Vietnam generation female grandchild of immigrants. I have not ever been an activist. If all white people were...
Africans; unite, mobilise, prosper and LEAVE!!
Mike Cruickshank, England. As an an Afro person, I feel that the dominant society (people who call themselves White) have subtle and blatant ways to...
That was then, this is now.
Abby Oklahoma City, OK I was working as a hostess at a restaurant a few years ago. We would seat servers/sections based on a rotation...
