Sports need to be equally accessible
Chaucer Countryman, The Blake School, Deephaven, MN I chose these 6 words because I feel like everyone no matter their race should be able to...
No really. Same mom, different dads.
Aren Brown, St. Cloud, MN I grew up as a white girl in an inter-racial family and constantly had to defend myself against others not...
Concerning. Scary. Exciting. “Hi, I’m Elaine.”
Elaine, Rochester, MN. These were the words that come to mind when I met my first non-white person — an American Indian girl. We were...
I wish we were all creamy-brown.
Tony Cunningham, St. Cloud, MN. I was going to say “blue,” but that would be a big adjustment. If we were all one race, we’d...
You’re Indian? With Dot or Feather?
Sam, Morris, MN. I have a grandfather that is fully Native American, from the White Earth Tribe. So my mother is ¼ Native American, and...
Ex-military, don’t understand my country’s culture.
Alan Hill Minneapolis, MN Why don’t veterans speak of their experience? Because of the culture barriers to understanding. Military veterans don’t yet understand (as a...
“Stick out on both sides….safe?”
Belinda, USA The reason I chose the first 6 words “Stick out on both sides…safe?” I have family in Minnesota, where my sisters and I...
White Male Teacher Looking to Help
Newo Zoils, Minneapolis, MN. I understand that as a white male in America I have in many unconscious ways perpetuated racism. I and my family...
You can raise your daughter white
Nicole Minneapolis, MN As a descendant of Germans and Scandinavians, I am termed WHITE. My daughter is is a strawberry blonde with creamy white skin...
Hated sunburns, wished I was black.
Donna Cook, Roseville, MN. I have very fair skin, Fitzpatrick Scale I, and growing up in Los Angeles meant lots of unintended, fairly serious, and...
Neither Puerto Rican or Mexican enough
Nayseth Carranza, Rochester, MN I’m mixed with Mexican, and Puerto Rican and many times I hear I’m not Puerto Rican enough or Mexican enough which...
A piece of the American Pie
Jeraine Cuff Minneapolis, MN Door knocking captain for Northside (MPLS) Community Re-investment Coalition
I got all the white genes.
Cayla Olson, Duluth, MN. I have always felt that I had to qualify my racial identity with those six words. I am part native, my...
Family matters; race, not at all.
Phyllis Kedl, Little Canada, MN. Ours is a multi-ethnic family. We have fourteen grandkids, only five of whom are ethnically related to us. The rest?...
