Friend James Green Jackson State Dead
Andy Shores Starkville, MS A track star, nicknamed ‘winged feet’ for his prowess in his chosen sport — he worked in a small grocery store...
All eyes on a black boy
Darius Tornes, Jackson, MS. Every time I go to the store people be keep on eye on me. They follow me around. I’m just trying...
Truth behind fear of Black men
Christian Armour, Starkville, MS I’ve often myself have asked myself many times before why people fear black men so much. As a young black man...
Be the Light in Someone’s Darkness
Claudasheia Buck, Jackson, MS My spirit carries good energy. Anybody I’ve ever come across has acknowledged the fact that I’m such caring and genuine person....
Racial stereotypes…killing mankind…hearts blind?
Amber Jackson Baswell, Columbus, MS. As a military brat I was naïve, sheltered. It was only when my father was stationed in the deep South...
Yankee child crossed South’s colorline. Paid.
Rebekah Bickford, Baldwin, ME. My white family moved from Indiana to Mississippi in 1977, when I was 8 years old. Our family was seen as...
The experience of “White African Americans”
Kevin Hayes, Ackerman, MS. “Love sees no color”. “What the world needs now…”. Pretty much says it.
Speak Spanish? You don’t look “Mexican.”
Kristiane Valenza, Vicksburg, MS. After moving to rural Mississippi from New York to teach Spanish at the high school level, I’m frequently met with confusion...
“Generic Brown” is my passport everywhere.
Gil L. Pettigrew, MS, The Federated States of Micronesia. I have a very strong, very proud cultural heritage; I’m a North American Mestizo, 50% Native...
Why my kids are the minority
Tara Jackson, MS They go to the highest scoring elementary school in the state of Mississippi which happens to be 98% African- American. My kids...
Ignorance and Fear are racism’s parents.
Allen D. Jenkins, Gulfport, MS. “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear… I John 4:18
She’s White in a Black body….
Cooper Shell, Jackson, TN. She’s White in a Black Body….. That is what has ALWAYS been said to describe me—since I was at least 12...
Don’t ask why families don’t match
Alicia Barnes, Starkville, MS. Shared race is not a qualifier of being a mother to a child. Some of us birth kids who don’t look...
“White privilege” is not about blame.
Nkrumah, Hattiesburg, MS. The term “White privilege” is not about blame. It is about getting people to recognize that there are some advantages to not...
Why do you always act white?
Anika Moore Gulfport, MS You can not act a color. You can not be a color. Just because I speak as though I have read...
