This brown skin is my crown.
Lynette Neal, Chicago, IL. Many times as a brown girl, it’s hard accepting that this skin we are in is no less than the fair...
Red hair blue eyes white skin
Sean, Chicago, IL. We try not to see color but color fills our life. Embrace it.
Avery. Ate on the back porch.
Dee Abbate, Oakwood Hills, IL. Although I was raised in Chicago and my parents “were not racists” they fed our colored handiman leftovers for supper...
What are you? White? or Italian?
Terri, Chicago, IL. Um…neither – Really. That is the first question asked by someone who had just met me. Really? That’s the first question you...
Treat all people with respect, kindness.
Sally Miller, New Douglas, IL. My doctor of 10 years is on the 9200 block of Ferguson. He is black, I am white. I go...
Ilinois Grandfather fought South, Still There.
Joe Fricke Greenwood, IN My mother’s Great-Grandfather fought for the 121st Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War, was shot and killed in action against the...
Empty spaces need substantive, loving equality.
Pursuit of social justice seems subsumed within an empty space of cliches. Can we transcend the superficial to create real equity in our world?
Black teen boys scare white people.
Tim McGovern, Chicago, IL. I live in a racially integrated neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. You go to the playgrounds and there are...
I was stinky; I wasn’t afraid.
Lynne Shotola, Waukegan, IL. I’m a white woman. It was a Sunday night right after Ferguson. I had spent a host, sticky day doing chores....
Most White people will never comprehend
James Ducey, Loves Park, IL. When I watched #AfterFergusonPBS I couldn’t help but come to your project. Keep up the good work. Thanks for your...
It’s not racism; it’s rational prejudice.
Mike Padden, Chicago, IL. The conversation would be much if improved if the inflammatory and innacurate term “racism” were substituted with the much more accurate...
