The whitest brown girl I know.
Catherine Marden El Cerrito, CA My mother is from El Salvador. My father is from Kentucky. I grew up in rural Oregon. I didn’t know...
Dogs and Irish, keep off grass!
Anonymous Lexington, KY These words, written upon a sign, greeted my grandfather when he arrived in New York after immigrating from Ireland.
Get back with the other monkeys!
Randall E. Dalton, MD Somerset, KY Above is the comment of a white Cincinnati, Ohio police officer when I left the ranks of a “sit-in”...
HELP WANTED: Black Entrepreneurs and Intellectuals
Jarel Johnson Louisville, KY In a recent study assigned in class, I found that a lot of African American children are growing up in single...
Half black, Half white, Still black.
Kenton Mobley Louisville, KY The world sees a black man, and that is all that matters to them.
In the “Race” blank, write “HUMAN.”
Michael Caudill Carcassonne, KY If we were all blind, bigots would need to find some other way to discriminate.
I know I don’t look it.
Jade Primicias Bowling Green, KY Would you ever tell a half-black person that they’re not black? My dad’s from the Philippines, my mom’s from New...
Year 2013, my town is segregated.
Tara Cartwright Winchester, KY My town is still segregated, but is so much the normal that we don’t realize it. I didn’t realize it until...
Diverse TV characters opens children’s minds.
Laura Furst Erlanger, KY As a little suburban white girl, the only black, latino and asian people I saw for many years was on tv....
I am more than my race.
Cestau Clark Louisville, KY It was against the law for my parents to be married in 1966. I was born in 1967. Florida was unkind...
Racism too exploited by the media
Warren Winburn Louisville, KY The media stretches out the race issue like an elastic toy. studies have shown it is not as large as much...
Are you half? No, I’m whole.
S. Belinda Rubio Lexington, KY I was at a gas station when the guy working the cash register asked me if I was half? His...
