Just cutting ribbon is not enough
Cayleigh Malone, Hyannis, MA As a white middle class female, I have realized through classes and my own perspective that not all races don’t have...
No my parents don’t pay school
Cayleigh Malone, Durham, NH Often times people think that because I am a middle class white woman, my parents are paying for my education. While...
Three Cultures. Two Races. No Home.
Kristen Ellerbe, Richmond, VA. As a mixed child, I have never felt at home with any culture. My mother was born in the Philippines and...
I worry about doing, speaking wrong
Amanda, MA As a white, middle class person I worry I’m not aware of how my privilege impacts me and others; I want to be...
I will never really ‘get it’.
Celia Beasley, Seattle, WA. Being an upper-middle class white woman, I know I will never truly understand what it feels like to be a person...
Afraid to mention the colour ‘black’.
Ann Murphy, England I worked in a fabric store in A predominantly white, middle class city in Southern England. I myself am white Irish and...
White Baby Boomer Low Wage Slave.
Skyler Crane Oceanside, CA There is a small splash of African in my ancestry, never talked about, though obvious in physical traits of many of...
Hi. You must be the nanny.
Mayra Cramer, Menlo Park, CA. I’m a brown typically Hispanic looking upper middle class woman living in an affluent suburb of San Francisco. I’ve allways...
Cajun heritage and worked for everything
Feldon Starns, Summerville, SC. I come from a lower middle class family. I was the first to graduate collage in my family. I worked full...
I’m a living apology, I’m sorry.
Annaleis Thibault, Bolton, MA. As a white, middle class american, I feel as though I owe reparations for the crimes committed by my ancestors.
Seeking humanism mutuality commonality above all
Pajarita Charles, Madison, WI My life as a white, middle-aged, educated, and otherwise very privileged member of society has left me seeking opportunities to find...
Not white enough, not black enough
Cassie C., VA As the child of an interracial couple (which are not just black & white but also Native American) that ended in divorce...
It caught up to me eventually.
Ray, Libby, MT Growing up white in a “middle class” community of a nearly all-white population, like most of the surrounding area for hundreds of...
Just another small-town white girl
Addie, Warrenton, VA I mean, those six words sum me up in a very basic way, but they are true. Growing up majority-white smallish town...
So many racists look like me
Robert Goffeney, Pittsburgh, PA At first, I thought it would be difficult to come up with six words to encapsulate my experience of race as...
Trying to make amends but failing.
Kate Beem, Independence, MO I am white and middle class. I grew up in a town in SE Missouri whose population was about evenly split...
Sipping lattes, we call it racism.
Michael, Livonia, MI It strikes me over and over again that we confuse the problems of being poor with racism. Dr. Martin Luther King understood...
