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...
I am a part of every body
Monica Mary Maul, Lakebay, WA I grew up in the central area of Seattle 1958 through the 1990’s. And my friends were of many skin...
I will not yield to you.
James Michael Rogers Houston, TX I was at my neighborhood park one morning jogging, and I saw three white women walking abreast in one direction,...
White female, eager learner, poor listener
Terry Tringali Killoran, Sterling Heights, MI I had black friends growing up. I thought I did. We played together at school and after school at...
Nice small town has race issues.
Sara Przybylski Stevens Point, WI People think this is a great place to live, work, and raise kids… and it is. Just under the surface,...
Blue eye, brown eye, eye opening.
Keith F Thompson, Brookline, NH. Growing up as a white male in generally liberal surroundings, I assumed so much. I assumed I knew what racism...
I’m surprised you speak so well.
E.C. Boyd, Canton, OH. I was not born, but I was raised in a predominantly white neighborhood because the school system was better in Perry...
Actually, I speak English very well.
Guadalupe Mitchell, Damascus, OR. Growing up, most people just saw a little brown Mexican girl. I remember when entered the second grade and my family...
Two white children in Halloween photo
Dave Parnell, Carrollton, TX. Our kindergarten daughter wanted to go to her friend’s Halloween party. I saw that the address and the protective father in...
They hate me because I’m Black?
Alexander, Sandy Springs, GA. I grew up in a majority neighborhood during the eighties and nineties. There were only a few other minority families in...
“A Teacher Who Looks Like Me”
Meghen, CA I’ve been babysitting for my current family for about a year and a half now, and I’ve heard of and been present for...
I will never really ‘get it’.
Celia Beasley, Seattle, WA. Being an upper-middle class white woman, I know I will never truly understand what it feels like to be a person...
Caucasian in Hawaii, treated as outsider
Annie H, Honolulu, HI Even after living in Hawaii over 25 years (moved for employment – my husband was recruited for a hard to fill...
Si Senor, yo soy del Bario
Elizabeth Gonzalez, Hodgkins, IL. I am proud of living in my neighborhood. I did not choose to be born a Latina or living in this...
I will not be an ally
Shelly Gremillion, Hammond, LA I lost my home in Hurricane Ida. When we arrived home after evacuation there were kids running and riding bikes stopping...
Why do people steal from us?
Peter Chin Washington, DC That was the question that my daughter asked me when our house was broken into a second time in three years....
But I have a black friend.
MK, Baltimore, MD. A few moments in my “coming into adulthood” stand out as I am navigating the world of race. I remember probably 10...
