Just A Small Town White Girl.
Ava N, West Point, NE I am a junior attending Guardian Angels Central Catholic in West Point, NE. I have always lived in a small...
Disgusted with How I am Treated
Noah Jay Geneski, Norfolk, NE I am a white teenage boy and I have heard countless stories of the discrimination of people with even the...
I see people, not colored skin.
Elizabeth Furstenau, Pierce, NE In this life, so many people are judged because of where they come from or what they look like, but we...
Ancestors were wrong. I am sorry.
Tim Minter, Bellevue, NE I am the descendant of slave holding Americans. My ancestors owned a plantation in Sedalia, SC – and, along with that...
Difficult Childhood With A Racist Father
Anonymous, Omaha, NE. My mother is black and father who I never knew was latino. When I was 3 my mother met and married a...
Faces: University, Prisons. Not the same.
Anonymous, Lincoln, NE. I teach Native Studies (among other things) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and I volunteer with the Native groups in the state...
Ashamed [race] is my first impression
Anonymous, Omaha, NE Whenever I meet someone new, my first impression is “they’re Black”, or “they’re Latino”. I get so many assumptions just based off...
Strength in pedigree proud of race
Tory Robinson, Omaha, NE. I refuse to be fearful growing up in Texas, I learned fear is an obstacle. I now live in Nebraska a...
You can not cross Father Lawler’s street
Joseph L Collins Jr Omaha, NE Ashland Avenue in Chicago was the street you could cross at 69th street or you would get beat up...
Girl, you are not black enough.
Flora Griffith, Omaha, NE. I was eight years old when I first began to feel like an outsider. My school was very segregated, white people...
Recognize differences, realize that’s not bad
Jess, Omaha, NE As a white woman who grew up in the midwest I was always told I shouldn’t talk about the differences, it was...
We’re all different. Different is good.
Rob Hinton, Omaha, NE Many people in my family are/were incredibly and aggressively racist. Growing up I didn’t understand what the jokes meant or the...
I look like “white trash” but I ain’t
Dalton M, Cozad, NE Apparently having a mullet and wearing white tank tops makes you white trash. Fine then. Cool with me. Cozad Highschool
Love My Backgrounds, But Spirit First.
Sun Absy, Omaha, NE. My family is incredibly diverse, racially, culturally and religiously. I feel fortunate to have spent a life within environments where peoples’...
