Half black, nobody knows or cares
Peter Nanula, Newport Coast, CA. I look white and was raised in mostly white areas, so no one knows I am half-black. Because they don’t...
I am more than my skin
Lisa Gullion, Nocross, GA. I only look white, I am a high percent of Cherokee (whom were murdered by the dozens for land), I am...
Lucky, at least you look white.
Jacob Augare, Kansas City, MO. Words from my Blackfeet, Native American father from the Piikani Nation.
I look white; perception is reality.
Mary Halling, Milwaukee, WI. Moving from New York to Ohio to Milwaukee in my 25 years on this Earth, I’ve encountered race in so many...
Bi-racial means you are nobody’s baby.
Silvija Singh, Pittsburgh, PA. Unlike my sibs, I do not look white, altho I have a white mother. I do not get treated like a...
Neighbor says, “She doesn’t look black.”
Nicole Smeltekop, East Lansing, MI. At Michele Norris’s talk in East Lansing last night, a woman said this to me as Ms. Norris came on...
Yes, I am her biological mother.
Mira Tanna Orlando, FL My father is from India, my mother from the Netherlands, and I am married to a man from Nigeria. I look...
