Immigrant to America equals sacrificing generations.
Tom Lau, Chicago, IL. This is a Polaroid of the back of my mom and dad that I took few years ago.
Lie. Pretend to be “less Black”
Anonymous, USA. Someone, maybe many people, in my family took on the persona of mixed race Black/Native Americans so they could be, what? Less Black?...
The young are not naturally prejudiced.
Adam Jones, Chaska, MN. I am a para in a special education class, and the high school in which I work is very diverse. The...
Since when is female a different race?
Andi Ray Bartnek, Canada. I grew up in a household with 4 generations of females and have spent my whole life having to justify my...
Race is nothing. Family is everything.
Sheli Turner, Los Angeles, CA While I am now a biracial 62 year old woman, who bore living witness to the difficulties my parents had...
White supremacy I win needs dismantiling
Ken Woodward, Germantown, MD I’m a 49-year-old white male. I have primarily lived oblivious to the pervasiveness of white supremacy and mostly denied its existence....
White Privilege doesn’t exist for me
Justin Banks, Mission Viejo, CA. I was born into an average middle class family that is dominantly white. I know that my father was born...
That’s right, I am Mexican too.
Arleigh Worstell, Ceres, CA. I come from a long line of hispanic women who married white men (myself included). Through the generations, even while some...
Race: A tightly tangled, knotted business
Catherine House Philadelphia, PA Racism is a terrible, complicated knot that some have tried to improve through generations. Abolitionists and the four civil rights workers...
Stereotypes are the fuel to fire
Erich Gibeault, Sacramento, CA. It seems to be less of a problem as the newer generations come in.
I am an immigrant, and white
Tom Dierolf Brevard, NC If you saw a photo of me among asian, black and latino faces, and asked to pick the immigrants to the...
Passing down prejudices tragically survives generations
Ann Elizabeth Hemphill Quartz Hill, CA Born in ’46 in Midwest, visiting with relatives in Florida each year, adult years in California. From my early...
Puerto Rican but everyone think mexican
Dr. Gisselle Velez-Ruiz Ann Arbor, MI Stereotypes & generations
Will there be seven more generations?
Dawn Walschinski Green Bay, WI I am a citizen of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. As part of the Iroquois Confederacy, one of...
Wouldn’t’ve been white 100 years ago.
Kevin Tierney Italy Nonnie was born in Italy and moved to the USA, 14 years old and a newlywed. Three generations later, I was born...
Racism fades generationally; bullets kill instantly.
Anonymous Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation
