My relationship is not a stereotype.
Lauren Smith, New Orleans, LA. Just because I am white and my (soon to be husband) is black does not mean that our relationship is...
We All Bleed the Same Color!
Curtis Bleaux, New Orleans, LA. People value nationalities, the privilege & the poverty struck. But we should value the Respect Value giving everyday by our...
Separation based on race – horrifying.
Joycelyn Cole Terrytown, LA As a high school sophomore in 1955, I attended our school system’s Oratorical Contest. The finalists were a white girl from...
I’m just American, not African American.
Lottie MSF, St. Louis, MO. Born in LA, raised in Compton, became an adult in Bay Area, relocated to MO. Loved by entrepreneur/homemaker grandparents. Raised...
I’m not white I’m actually pink
Jacob Monarch, Shreveport, LA. It is impossible for white to be an accurate description of the color of anyone’s skin. It ranges between a pale...
You’re pretty for a black girl
Gloria Collins, Shreveport, LA. Every ethnic group has beauty. No race has more beauty over other races.
Things Change to Stay the Same
Amye, New Orleans, LA. As far as we come and as much as we make progress it seems as if we keep falling into cycles...
What can one white woman do?
Maggy Wolf, New Orleans, LA. Other than voting my liberal conscience and trying to be extra kind and generous to black people I meet in...
“I wish I had my n*****-shooter”
Julian Riggs Smith Durham, NH Growing up in a little town in Louisiana during the Second Word War, I found nothing strange about the fact...
Silence is Golden; Bullets are Silver.
Syrcharles Rounds Shreveport, LA You grow up learning not to tell . Wonder if you should risk dying and tell, or be quiet and let...
We are miseducated and don’t know.
Christopher Bland New Orleans, LA Recently I’ve been studying my history, my essence, that extends beyond what was taught in school and at church. I...
Bigotry, Enlightenment, Experiencing, Acting, Agitating, Living
Isabelle Keefe Marrero Tuscaloosa, AL I am 76 years old, grew up in New Orleans in ingrown bigotry, discovered that black people had a last...
I live to remember their names.
Grant Hayter-Menzies Canada The names I remember every day are those of the 45 black people held in bondage by my maternal ancestors from 1670s...
Black family history hard to uncover
Chadwick Campbell Berkeley, CA Being black and from Louisiana, searching for my family past my great grandparents is very difficult. Finding people who were, literally,...
What will my children look like?
Madeline Murphy New Orleans, LA My father is white. My mother is black. My experiences and perspective as someone who is visibly “mixed” is something...
