My Full-time Job: Being Black
Jessica, Taunton, MA. Being Black in America means that you constantly have to change and work on yourself in order to please the dominant group...
Mine isn’t acknowledged by the SAT
Alia Suleiman, Northhampton, MA. Smith College Thank you, so so much, for speaking at Smith College.
I’m Slavic; more than just “white”.
Nicholas Ellis, Somerville, MA. Being referred to as simply “white” strips me of my ethnicity, of which I am very proud. I look Slavic, I...
Everyone together: Nobody is “those people.”
Holly Wenninger, Malden, MA. I’m white, but for the past six or so years I’ve worked out at n athletic center whose focus is primarily...
This is still not yet over.
Sarah Butler, Weymouth, MA. I am not blind to the similarities of then and now. A newspaper cover connected the past and present for me...
I’m white, I’m lucky; not fair.
Astrid afKlinteberg Gloucester, MA As a criminal defense attorney I am reminded constantly that I am privileged because I am white. I’ve represented many minority...
Saw an ugly world too early
Diana Ryan Millbury, MA My last name notwithstanding, I am 100% Puerto Rican through and through. That is an ethnicity, not a race but too...
White and poor, must be stupid.
Aris Foucault Etheridge Leverett, MA I think it’s possible that the poor urban white perspective may be a helpful one in thinking about race as...
I’m Mexican-American, heritage comes first
Bessie King Boston, MA I don’t think I have been offended by being asked “Where are you from?” before. I was raised to know that...
Injustice is Immoral; deserving of struggle.
Sheila Mahoney Boston, MA I was 10 in 1965 and am the Granddaughter of Irish immigrants also brutalized by white supremacists who went to Ireland...
I thought slavery ended decades ago.
Alexa Ogno Salem, MA In the 1980’s, I went to a Catholic prep school that was full of privileged white kids. My good friend, Duchess...
“Preference: I don’t date black guys.”
Justin Natick, MA We must remember that a proclamation of “preference” still hurts. I am a 17 yr. old African American boy. I am also...
Don’t profile my future thru racism.
Deborah Washington Brookline, MA Institutional racism still exists. It makes racism anonymous. “nobody’s fault”. Those who carry it out use systems as a scapegoat, like...
School parity would make this moot
Edward Lyons Boston, MA If all schools provided a quality education, it wouldn’t matter so much how we decided who went where.
