White until someone tells me differently
Megan Forrest, Chicago, IL Living in suburban Chicago is always weird because I dress the same as the rest of my peers, talk the same,...
Our different skins hold one love.
Ty Martinez, Oak Lawn, IL. Black Mexican Korean Italian – sharing the best of each other with each other through similar yet very different cultural...
Like looking through a semi-opaque window.
Tony, Chicago, IL. I chose these six words because when it comes to race, it is like we are looking at each other through a...
I Don’t Get To Be Colorblind
Jenn M. Jackson, Chicago, IL. Every single day I am accused of “making things about race.” I’m told that I’m “looking for racism” in everything....
Assist based on need, not color.
Bobby Chicago, IL Current iterations of affirmative action programs are a relic of the narrowminded thinking of the past century. They should be reformed to...
Fifty years of hope still unfulfilled.
Leslie Williams Dundee, IL Being a baby boomer and a child of the 60s and 70s I wondered how I would ever explain racism to...
Education will free humanity from differences
Karolina Krajewska, Hardwood Heights, IL. I read your article in National Geographic about a month ago. The white people are mad about the demographic changes...
My skin is not your accessory.
Michelle K. Chicago, IL Racist men who are interested in me solely for their “yellow fever”: my skin is not your accessory. Racist people who...
We’re ALL racist in some form!
Dana Lee Sterbens, Chicago, IL. Discrimination in not only for people of color. We all discriminate against “other” or “the unknown”. I have experienced racism...
All Black City, America please wake-up.
Sandra Pfeifer, Simpson, IL. This is East Saint Louis, Illinois, an all Black city, where the American Dream took a wrong turn, leaving an entire...
Let’s get over our white selves.
Christine Pado, Third Lake, IL. Yeah – so, I’m white and I live in a mostly white neighborhood. We moved out here for affordable housing....
ALL colors should obey the laws.
Donna Corrigan, Bloomingdale, IL. People would not be so afraid of the changes happening with racial imbalance in our country if laws weren’t being broken,...
