Isolation left me all mixed up.
Tad C., Overland Park, KS. With very little exposure to other races while growing up I found myself faced with 2 stereotypes for blacks; pigeonholes...
What’s Wrong With Asians in the Library?
Samie Hays, KS I work at a university library. Our university is lucky enough to have students from all over the world. We are not...
My kids’ RACE is not OREO
Ashli Dean, Overland Park, KS. Selected from anonomous entries in Professor Seiler’s Social Problems Class Johnson County Community College -extra credit
Secret shame: Still surprised by similarities.
Debbie Staton Sterling, KS I was taught from a very young age that God created and loves everyone, regardless of race or nationality and not...
Do you, George, feel any remorse?
Mark Zipf Prairie Village, KS Only cowards bring guns to fistfights.
I’m Hispanic and I speak English
Yvonne Ramirez Dodge City, KS There are times where I have walked up to the register and and the cashier assumes I don’t speak English...
I’m more of a pink person.
Lauren Wiebe Hays, KS I am Caucasian or white, and I am only starting to really think about what that means for me on a...
You’re Mexican? But we’re so similar?
Miguel G. Hays, KS I always meet a ton of people that get very surprised that I’m Hispanic since I’m not short or dark-skinned ....
Want to Hear A Racist Joke?
Tramaine Fraser Overland Park, KS ~Extra credit~ assigned by Professor Seiler @ Johnson County Community College
This is an English speaking country
John P. Olathe, KS Selected from Charlotte Seiler’s Social Problems class at JCCC.
Ask black girls out? They’d laugh!
John D Gardner Overland Park, KS I was in high school from 1979 to 1981. During that time there were a few girls that I...
White is not a default color.
Diana Lambert Kansas City, KS I find that children who have one “white” parent and one “non-white” parent are often decidedly identified as the non-white...
