Where you goin’, where you been?
Caitlin Grames Sterling Heights, MI Race, gender, heritage, and all other innate traits we are born with are only secondary to our life experiences. Our...
White husband, still a Nubian Queen
Kavisa, Brooklyn, NY. My parents raised me to be extremely proud and knowledgeable of my African American and Caribbean heritage. My love for Africa intensified...
No one believes I am black
Sozit Mohamed, Sunnyvale, CA. Being Ethiopian with Arab heritage in my family, most do not believe I’m black/African. Also, being black and muslim, seems to...
I don’t want my white privilege.
Jason Struhs Salt Lake City, UT All safety and comfort that I currently enjoy has been at the expense of those who have a different...
I am not plain white rice.
Nicole Rice, San Juan Capistrano, CA. I am more than just ‘white’ even though everyone looks at me and says that is all I am....
On the subject of white guilt
Kevin, New York, NY. I don’t really understand this whole issue on white guilt, but I think it stems from privilaged elite “European Americans” who...
I cannot choose just one race
Jade Pritchett, Port St. Lucie, FL. Growing up, I never understood how I was supposed to chose a bubble, check a box, pick one race....
Wait, you’re black? Are you sure?
Madison Jones, Lansing, MI. As soon as someone finds out that I’m half-black, the one drop rule sets in and I become full black. Also,...
Weight from America, Pride in heritage.
Dre Kansas City, MO I am curious if you the responses your received while in PA and across the country differed at all by race,...
Plantains and potatoes get equal weight.
Lucia Flores Medford, MA My parents raised us to be proud of our Dominican heritage, and at the same time went to great lengths to...
Not white, I am Celtic American.
Janet Modesto, CA I am from Irish, Welsh and Scottish grandparents and don’t identify with other cultures that are grouped White/Caucasian. I am proud of...
How long have you had him?
Heather Ann Lindstrom Buffalo, NY My beautiful son was born to two very different parents. Me, of Swedish and Irish heritage,and his father of Samoan...
I’d like to return my white privilege.
Danielle Blixt, Riverside, CA. Although my heritage is Lebanese, Costa Rican and German, to the outside world I look white. I recognize and accept that...
Not Trayvon, fear becoming Sabrina
Cyndi Morris, Los Gatos, CA. I’m a White mom of a Black son, living in an overwhelmingly white neighborhood. I struggle against my in adequate...
I’m 50-50, they only see black.
Autumn Battani, Los Angeles, CA. People only identify me as black. And that doesn’t make sense to me. Even when I was little, and we...
Biracial. Never wanted to be white.
Anjali, USA. Growing up I feel like I only belong to my Sri Lankan culture and heritage because I dismiss the white part of myself....
