Sweet, intelligent, handsome, loved black man
Kenyatta Yamel Milwaukee, WI Heard about this through twitter so I thought I would have my say.
I (don’t) fit. Don’t look closely.
Emery Boyle-Scott, Milwaukee, WI. I want to belong in a group, and it’s nice to belong until someone looks closely. My whiteness is always sidelined...
I’m finally learning, I am powerful.
Alexandra Rosas, Milwaukee, WI. After a lifetime of wishing I could be accepted and trying to be anything except who I AM, to fit in,...
I’m a American Indian not a Native American
Damone Wilson, Milwaukee, WI As a kid, I remember coming home from school & telling my grandmother about what I learned for black history month....
DNA results: my body is colonial.
Kate Cunningham, Milwaukee, WI My white ancestors swallowed up the non-white ones, then pretended they were never there at all.
“Mythical norm”, is what I be
Donald Malchow, Milwaukee, WI. A friend explained to me that I was the “mythical norm” in our society while we were in college. That really...
Blonde hair, green eyed, white girl
Devinne, USA I lived and worked in the inner city of Milwaukee Wisconsin as an EMT and with the number of times I heard that...
This country belongs to Native Americans.
Lewis Hernandez, Milwaukee, WI. White people, raped, murdered and stole this country from the American Indian. Now it’s one America. One white. One Black. One...
Misreading slavery due to modern morals.
Rikki Clark, Milwaukee, WI. I teach African-American literature and folklore at the university level. Often white students will say in class how they would have...
Black? White? Which box do I mark? I’m both
Cole J. Powell, Milwaukee, WI mixed half black half white. I don’t get why I have to one box when I’m two. I know there’s...
Race doesn’t define how you act
Ethan Flechner, Milwaukee, WI I’m a white man and I act very differently then most white people I see in stories and on the news....
White privilege makes me feel sickened.
Jaime Misky, Milwaukee, WI I chose these six words because they have been a harsh reality I have learned as I grew up. From K4-5th...
Race stolen when ancestors abused enslaved.
Janie Hill Hatton, Milwaukee, WI First National Principal of the Year 1994 I value this project and hope it will prompt conversations to unite the...
We all have a cross to bear.
Anonymous, Milwaukee, WI. After writing/blogging about race for over 15 years at Blackfriendonline.com there is only 1 thing I’ve learned. We all want and fear...
