Jewish. I think I can relate.
Rabbi Justin Kerber, Saint Louis, MO. I may be “white.” But my grandparents and great-grandparents weren’t “white,” they were Jews! The distinction had implications and...
Why cant I enjoy my heritage?
Jennifer Kerkow Chaska, MN I’m mostly Scottish and German but Im around 1/4 Indian. I feel like I cant fully embrace it and claim it...
“I wish I had my n*****-shooter”
Julian Riggs Smith Durham, NH Growing up in a little town in Louisiana during the Second Word War, I found nothing strange about the fact...
Dakota, Lakota, Native, Land, Pride, Immigrant
Mariah Sazue Morris, MN I am a Dakota/Lakota Sioux who is Native to this now American Land, but I feel like I am an Immigrant....
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...
Black family history hard to uncover
Chadwick Campbell Berkeley, CA Being black and from Louisiana, searching for my family past my great grandparents is very difficult. Finding people who were, literally,...
Tell me again how I’m privileged.
Anonymous Chicago, IL I am female and white. Often I am told by my POC friends that my life is easier than theirs and I...
Why am I a hyphenated American?
Earnestine Simmons Las Cruces, NM The majority of Americans have foreign ancestors, but they don’t wear an identification tag of their great- or great-great-grandparents. They...
Grandparents deny we’re Melungeon, ancestry hidden.
Melodie Thompson Collins High Knob, VA It’s quite difficult to do geneology when my grandmother’s people deny who their parents were related to in truth.
Detroit 1967 riot division,decline… reconciliation?
Zachary Terzich Ann Arbor, MI After July, 1967’s race riots, my grandfather and thousands of other white families abandoned the once “Paris of the Midwest”,...
Grandparents couldn’t have had our marriage.
Rachel Devenish Ford Submitted via Twitter: @journeymama
