Sorry for sins of my ancestors
Katie, Salem, OR I struggle with feeling heavy and saddened by the history of the United States. I want to do my best to protect...
We have so far to go.
Bonnie Shoultz, Syracuse, NY. I was a young person during the 1960s, and dreamed that this country would overcome its terrible history of oppression and...
Our Outer Appearance Does Not Matter
I grew up in a very divided household when it comes down to the words race and racism. When I 7 my parents divorced, I...
There is only one Human Race.
Jason Argent, United Kingdom As a white male, living in a predominantly white neighbourhood, working in a predominantly white workplace and profession, it is easy...
Glad my daughter is not white.
Nice White Lady, San Francisco, CA. I’m a white mom to a brown daughter who can’t shake the shame and embarrassment that stems from a...
My history is only slavery! Why!
King Kellz, Fayetteville, NC. We only learn what America has taught us about our specific race.
Usually I’m ashamed to be white
Thomas Williamson, Cool Valley, MO Born the end of 1949, traveled throughout the country, changed schools every year, in D.C. when Dr. King was killed,...
Black and part of the solution.
Maurice Kemp, San Antonio, TX. I did not choose my race. No one did. I was born into a world with preconceived notions about my...
We must teach children real history.
Jacquie Pancoast, Gresham, OR We are one race inhabiting this planet with other species. Oppression is about power and control. As a species we appear...
Ignorance of history, convenient or willful?
Emily Green-Cain, Nashville, TN. I grew up in the city where James Lawson led teach-ins for non-violence that led to sit-ins throughout the Southeast. No...
Why don’t you consider yourself White?
Anonymous, Redwood City, CA. White people have been trying to kill my people for 2000+years. I think that gives us an out on being part...
Altering historical truth enslaves us all
Tess Schorz, New Haven, KY At the rate our world is devolving, we will repeat past atrocities but all in the name of political correctness...
Name of cemetery doesn’t change history
Lonna Jo Bowen-AlMoctar, Louisville, KY. I am from a clan of hillbillies in Eastern Kentucky. My family has a swath of land, called Bowen Farms,...
Sometimes I’m ashamed to be white.
Doug Fraser, Roundup, MT What right do white people have to feel superior to any other race, since we have caused so much trouble for...
You graduated in four years? Really?
Michael Tackie, Pittsburgh, PA. Upon graduation from college with a B.S.in Chemical Engineering, I got this from someone I had known for three years, someone...
I don’t know what I am.
Jasmine Perry, Cleveland, OH. When it comes to race I honestly don’t know what I am. My families backdrop is kind of patchy, no one...
Learn from History, Change the Future
Jerry, Leonardtown, MD Embrace the good and bad about our Country so we can make it a more perfect Union.
Adopted at birth; family history unknown.
Kristi Boehm, Spring, TX. Every year on my birthday I give thanks to the woman who loved me enough to give me up for adoption....
