Mom’s people owned slaves. Dad’s were.
Andrew Dunn, Meridian, ID. My 4x great grandfather was born a slave in Virginia. My 3x great grandfather owned slaves in Missouri.
Just how you are, my friend.
Amberly Richins, Rigby, ID. Through my experiences living in another country for a couple years I’ve learned that the most rewarding feeling in the world...
Wait, he’s not your sugar daddy?
Aubrie B., Moscow, ID. I am an 18 year old adopted Chinese girl. For years, I’ve endured the disgusted looks of onlookers whenever I go...
Native American and Aztec with curls?
Kortny, Fuitland, ID I had some speculation as to my race, thinking I could have some Native Hawaiian in me, hence the curly hair, but...
Why can’t we all be nice
Misti Harrelson, Meridian, ID p>I would always shake my head at those I thought to be prejudiced and felt that many minority groups stereotyped Caucasians...
Blacks Must Show ID To Exist
Patti Downing, Kansas City, MO Attended the Race Place & Diversity Symposium and luncheon yesterday. It was a fun and wonderful experience. If all of...
Hatred hurts the hated and hater
Dan Creamer, Sandpoint, ID. I grew up in the Jim Crow South. Being white I always felt both guilty and angry about the way black...
They won’t listen, they won’t believe
Merritt Campbell Burton, Lewiston, ID I considered myself color-blind until I learned that wasn’t helping. I was one of those hippy-dippy people who would say...
Race is beautiful! Racism is learned.
Linda Kaye Hollingsworth-Jones, Emmett, ID As a preschooler, my sisters asked if I knew my preschool teacher was black. Not in a mean way but...
Be yourself Everyone Else is Taken
Kristine Knowles, Idaho Falls, ID I’m a 56-year-old woman from the south and racism is worse now, by far than in my youth. Although being...
I’m learning. Please don’t be offended.
Rachel Townsend, Rexburg, ID As a white woman, I will probably never understand completely what my brothers and sisters of different races feel and experience....
Quit news job; wedding photos segregated.
Susan Roberts, Moscow, ID. My first daily newspaper job in 1964. Couldn’t treat people that way. Went to work with Y-Teens in low income Hamden,...
“Generic Brown” is my passport everywhere.
Gil L. Pettigrew, MS, The Federated States of Micronesia. I have a very strong, very proud cultural heritage; I’m a North American Mestizo, 50% Native...
Prejudice and Racism, a two-way street.
Bob, Boise, ID. I honestly believe that racism and prejudice has become worse in the last couple of decades because it has become a two-way...
Samoan/Jewish – aka The Last Unicorn
S. Dreyfuss, Novato, CA. Sometimes I call myself The Last Unicorn, after the silly 1980’s movie about a unicorn, the only one of her kind,...
