Minorities commit majority of crime. Why?
DMC, Mineral Wells, TX. Who’s fault is it? I was a criminal but “chose” not to be. Am I a minority or white? Stop! Embrace...
No One Is Better Than You…
Kim Skillern Samuels, Cleveland Heights, OH. I lived in a neighborhood of black people, and went to an inner city public school. When friends found...
Your race is not an excuse.
Scott McLean, VA The world is full of millions of people trying their hardest just to get by. They do not have time to be...
Tired of Asians being a minority
Jaimie Nguyen San Jose, CA There are not much Asians in the media, not many Asians exposed in the light. Also, it saddens me how...
White and poor, must be stupid.
Aris Foucault Etheridge Leverett, MA I think it’s possible that the poor urban white perspective may be a helpful one in thinking about race as...
America’s minority education is in crisis
Alondra K. Poindexter Arlington, TX I am a doctoral candidate at Texas Wesleyan University. I am currently working on my dissertation “Cultural Identity and African...
She is not a token Latina
Leslie Carver San Diego, CA I am a professor & was profoundly affected when I heard a student talk about having been referred to as...
This white student supports affirmative action!
Alexandra Walling Seaside, CA I go to a “majority-minority” college. The more I get to know my classmates, the more convinced I am that affirmative...
Undeserving, just a white single mom
Sarah Morris Downingtown, PA Who knew it was difficult to not be part of the “minority”? My situation would be much different if my race...
Affirmative action beneficiaries: mostly not poor
Nathan Whitelight USA Liberals arguing for racial preferences in our government always give a sob story about a minority who grew up in the ghetto,...
Unique and enriching experience shaped me!
Pamela Payne Foster Tuscaloosa, AL I entered high school in 1972 and was part of an integration experiment in Atlanta GA called the Minority to...
Black in America, white in Africa
Dauda Ladipo Nigeria Grew up and live in both the US and Nigeria. Because of my mixed racial heritage I got used to being viewed...
World is bigger than I knew.
Sarah Alys Lindholm USA After growing up white in a small upper-Midwestern town with a nearly all-White population, traveling both within and without the US...
Every minority is a majority somewhere.
Laura Hurst Cleveland, OH I’ve been living in Santiago, Chile for the past 4 months. The ethnic homogeneity has made me proud and appreciative of...
Minorities must be “stomped” out, removed.
Colton Denver, CO An incredibly close friend of mine was one of the only white girls at an African-American/Asian majority school. Months ago she was...
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...
As Child, Went To Minority Doctor
Seth Wittner Henderson, NV My parents were ahead of their time. I was born in 1950, and when I was ten or eleven, my parents...
A white minority during my youth.
Jean Millard Milford, MI I wanted to be part of the black culture around me because I could see the tight family ties they had....
