Race is Fiction. Racism is Fact
Byron Parrish Boston, MA The idea of race is a fiction. There is no basis in biology for saying there are different races. Our ideas...
My “Black Experience” doesn’t threaten yours
Louisa Etim Cambridge, MA I often get frustrated with the notion (held by people of all races) that there is a single “Black Experience” and...
But you don’t have an accent!
Sonia Boston, MA When people look at me, I clearly look Hispanic. So much so that many are surprised to hear that I speak perfect...
Ambivalent, because my family owned slaves.
Charles H. Sides Westminister, MA I always felt superior because my great-great grandfather Sides was conscripted against his will or support into the Confederate Army,...
Multiracial: Acknowledge Every Part Of Me
Kayci Baldwin Cambridge, MA For more than 7 years I have worked as a Multiracial advocate with Project RACE and Project RACE Teen. One of...
Only one race – the Human Race.
Barbara Dean Great Barrington, MA This is such a painful subject for so many people, but I believe to my core that there really is...
I was born because of racism.
Chelsea Lowe Boston, MA In 1959, my mother was engaged to marry a man who wanted a black best man at their wedding. Even though...
Growing up Phillipino and Irish
Vincent Remolete Boston, MA I had blacks and whites chasing me home after school. Anyone Asian was considered a chink or a jap in 50’s...
Only one black in my school
Bob Blizard Acton, MA Growing up in western New York State in the ’50s, there was only one black kid in school. I remember our...
What opened my eyes: “flesh-colored” bandages
Irene M. Pepperberg, Swampscott, MA. I was in high school, a racially integrated one, in the 60s, discussing racial issues with a contemporary black woman,...
I hate that there is hate!
Mark Babbitt Clayton, NC I was born in 1954 in Western Massachusetts. I was raised to be color-blind. I still remember a friend of my...
I am Afro-Caribbean, not African American.
Tracey Lincoln Needham, MA I am a proud Jamaican immigrant who was raised in that tiny island until I was eighteen years old. There, we...
Sorry we don’t service that neighborhood
Ingrid Monson Newton, MA I’m white but lived in a black neighborhood in Chicago for part of the 1990s. I tried to get a plumbing...
