A mixture that is still white
Sydney Skroch, Minneapolis, MN. I have lived in Minnesota my whole life and my world has opened up extremely slowly to diversity and different cultures....
Liberals can easily be racist, too
Vincent Zaal, Minneapolis, MN. We come from a very liberal area and are staunch liberals ourselves and yet in people’s attempts to “not be racist”...
Can we talk about white culture?
Jennifer Campbell, Chaska, MN. Growing up in suburban Minneapolis I never had to talk about my skin color or rarely meet others of a different...
We never saw you as Asian.
Lor Lee Albertville, MN I grew up in Minneapolis, MN and when I moved out to a small rural school district many of my friends...
Being white shouldn’t mean being clueless.
Andrew Butz Minneapolis, MN I am white, and grew up not thinking or having to think much about race at all. Made a lot of...
THE COLOR OF MY SKIN ~PRICELESS~
Tricia Stewart, Minneapolis, MN. I am bi-racial and I’ve experienced racism from both sides(black and white). You don’t always realize in the moment whether something...
Son can’t speak. May be shot.
Lynnisha Grigsby, Minneapolis, MN. My son has a rare form of Down syndrome. Mosaic Translocation Down syndrome. He wasn’t diagnosed until he was 2 because...
“WHERE did you get that baby?”
Margot Rideaux-Crenshaw, Minneapolis, MN. The most frequent question addressed to me as a young mother in 1977 with my infant son.
I’m mad that I’m reflexively racist.
Jordan Weil, Minneapolis, MN. I’m really angry that my first reaction to a young black man is to start checking my surroundings and wondering if...
“Your black, Do you do drugs?”
Aries Johnson, Minneapolis, MN. My 4th grade teacher asked me if I did drugs, I was so hurt. It was 2 years ago but still...
I teach. I build relationships with students.
Sarah Brookner Minneapolis, MN I am a white female. I grew up in a wealthy suburb of Minneapolis. My students are mostly Somali, African American...
Don’t speak Spanish to white relatives.
Max Lazzara, Minneapolis, MN. Bilingual when I learned to talk, raised among my father’s Floridian family of Spaniards, Italians, and Cubans, I was just as...
A fictitious category yet so powerful
Manju Parikh Minneapolis, MN Loved your commencement speech at College of Saint Benedict in May 2014
