So where do you come from?
Michael Chan, Maplewood, MN. I am half Chinese and half Caucasian, but my German and Hebrew language skills are much stronger than my Cantonese skills...
The myth that ruined the world
Casper Strunk, Maplewood, MN I hope for the best, but I know that the plague of racism will be around all my life. And all...
How did you get a boy?
Claire Wallick Moy, Maplewood, NJ. This is what I was asked in 1998 when I moved to NJ. Our 3 children look much more like...
How did you get a boy?
Claire Wallick Moy, Maplewood, NJ. This is what I was asked in 1998 when I moved to NJ. Our 3 children look much more like...
I hide in my Anglo-Franco name.
Eleanor Williams Maplewood, NJ My name is white, my skin is dark. Torn between my minority & majority roots I don’t know who I am.
White people shouldn’t adopt tan babies
Kipp Jarecke-Cheng Maplewood, NJ One day, out of the blue, my seven-year-old son said to me and my partner, “White people shouldn’t adopt tan babies...
Ugh, I’m the only one again.
Brian Jones Maplewood, NJ I am often the only person of color in the room, and always have been. Except when I went to Howard...
Easily suspended, can destroy their lives.
Jill Shortreed Maplewood, MN My nephew is half Native American. He was kicked out of school for carrying a box cutter in his pocket that...
“You’re just ignorant” she countered back
Lane Gans Maplewood, MN A retort spoken by Ashley De Grande, a 1st grader at the time when another 1st grader told her they’ve never...
