Stop saying black people are White!
Thomas Vance College Park, MD 14 yr old teen tired of white people saying I don’t act black.
Just got blamed for being white.
Anonymous Frederick, MD Another woman just stopped on the street and screamed at me because I’m white and that must make me privileged. She has...
Why do we still talk race?
Robert DeVaughn Jr. Joppa, MD If we want to move beyond racism, we can no longer continue to differentiate ourselves, or each other, by race.
Affirmative action necessary for current injustice.
Laura Silver Spring, MD It really bothers me when people dismiss affirmative action on the grounds that it is making up for racist past. Racism...
Self segregation leads to continued stereotyping.
Monica Mingo Germantown, MD Whenever I meet someone who doesn’t have friends who share different skin colors, I challenge it. How can you live in...
How much more I gotta give?
Deria Matthews Germantown, MD The work of civil rights activists and social justice workers alike is exhausting, emotionally taxing and just takes a lot out...
You Have To Be Carefully Taught
Leigh Slater Hagerstown, MD We are not born hating people who are different from ourselves. Like the song from South Pacific says, hatred is taught,...
I want to walk beside your shoes.
Lillian Kilduff Kingsville, MD I will never be able to walk in another person’s shoes and fully understand their life. But I think that being...
I recognize my privilege in life.
Anonymous, Baltimore, MD I am a middle class American female, who, through feminism, was able to come to terms with my real place in this...
Underachievement does not equal African American
Anthony Galloway Baltimore, MD In being African American it’s always perceived that’s blacks are a product of an inter-city environment with negative tendencies. Even if...
The surgeon’s cut reveals the same.
Joanne L Perron, MD Pebble Beach, CA As an OB/GYN, I have had the privilege to take care of many different women and their families...
Mom, will I turn brown now?
Asheley Woodruff Burtonsville, MD My family recently moved from Idaho to Maryland. For the first time, my children were immersed in a racially diverse population....
Is it my fault I’m white?
Ashley S. Elkton, MD People say I’m privileged, that I’m treated better because I’m white, and a woman, and a Christian, that I had educational...
Mexican, Italian, Persian, what are you?
Rebecca Rodriguez Baltimore, MD This is a picture of my brother and I. Constantly he gets accused of being Arab, Mexican or Italian from Caucasians,...
Biracial??! Maybe. But, call me black.
Tiffanie Luckett Greenbelt, MD I was adopted at nine months of age. My parents are black. My biological parents were Caucasian and black. My parents...
