“Everyone’s a little bit racist….” – Avenue Q
Lyn Needham, MA Edward R. Murrow said that we are all racist, i.s., we make judgments based on race (color, religion, gender). He said the...
I’m not half white, still mixed.
Brandi Artez Boston, MA I’ve had this debate a lot over the years, where usually white people, will tell me that I’m wrong to consider...
Black families don’t adopt white babies.
Sue Rushfirth Sudbury, MA It strikes me that one way of assessing just how evolved we are as a culture would be to consider the...
Asian American: Not majority, not minority.
Jennifer Chow Brookline, MA We seem to occupy this in-between space, identified as neither a minority, nor the majority. Where are we?
Check: White… Wait, I’m Hipsanic too?
Andrea M. Newton, MA I grew up not really ever thinking about my race until my college applications asked me to literally box myself into...
Can’t be colorblind and see me
Chandra Craven Boston, MA As a future mother of a biracial child and as black America I get insulted when someone says they don’t see...
Is this what racism feels like?
Christine Boston, MA I was shopping with a dear friend and her two children. She needed to use the restroom so I gladly took her...
But your kids don’t look Mexican
Patricia Johnston Walpole, MA On behalf of my children, who are indeed Mexican.
Korean, but I don’t speak Korean
Cliff Song Medford, MA I’m a Korean-American. My parents are from Korea. I was born and raised in Southern California (recently moved to Massachusetts). I...
Native? Not according to the government
James Sandborn Boxborough, MA If a person called themselves an African American and someone asked if they could provide a genealogical search at your own...
Are those boys your biological children?
Wendy Allmendinger North Attleboro, MA I was asked this question far too many times to count when my children were little. I am white, my...
I want to be like you
Michael Manning Somerville, MA I was bused in 1969 to a school in Roxbury, Mass., and was myself discriminated against because of the color of...
But you don’t look Puerto Rican…
Paul David Mena Wayland, MA As if a Puerto Rican can’t be fair-skinned, middle-class and college-educated! Granted, I was raised by parents who looked for...
Only you define who you truly are.
Kendrick Mejia Jamaica Plain, MA No matter what box you check at the end all that matters is how you feel about yourself.
Race doesn’t define me, actions do.
Kai Brown Boston, MA Often times I feel that as soon as people see me, they label me as a certain race and adjust their...
