Tail the black guy buying moscato.
Erik Aurora, CO I was in a mixed-race neighborhood, in line at a convenience store behind a black man checking out with a white clerk....
They won’t come south of the creek.
Susan Schriber, Minneapolis, MN. What a participant of our group remembers hearing his parents say, about the time your parents were moving in.
OSMONDS BETTER THAN JACKSON 5, WHY?
Juleah Richards, Chippewa Falls, WI. BORN IN 1960; ST.PAUL MINN. LIVED IN WONDERFULLY MIXED NEIGHBORHOODS IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS UNTIL I WAS 10YRS OLD. MY MOM...
I hate hearing “the neighborhood changed”
Glenny Brock, Submitted via Twitter: @glennybrock Always code. In fact, most of the people I’ve heard say this were people who themselves CHANGED neighborhoods by...
Not Member of Your White Club
Britt Verstegen, Socorro, NM. I grew up as a blonde, blue-eyed kid in an interracial family within a racially diverse neighborhood of inner-city Detroit. My...
No, not the nanny… They’re MINE.
Valerie Grajeda Rountree, San Jose, CA. I grew up not speaking Spanish in a very Mexican neighborhood. My mother sent me to schools out of...
I thought you were a “hoodrat”
Cierra Garza, Parlier, CA. When I first moved to my new high school 15 minutes away from my hometown, I had no friends. I am...
You’re American? Were you born here?
Araceli, Pasadena, CA. No I wasn’t born here. Does it really matter? My family moved to this country when I was 2.5 yrs old. I...
Aren’t you worried about getting robbed?
Chase Linn, Wayne State, Detroit, MI I am a college student at Wayne State University in Detroit. I live in a great neighborhood and feel...
Race doesn’t define how you act
Ethan Flechner, Milwaukee, WI I’m a white man and I act very differently then most white people I see in stories and on the news....
I am White and Hispanic getoverit
Matt JP J, Tewksbury, MA. My grandmother’s father was from Puerto Rico and she never knew him very well. She grew up as Irish with...
Young Hispanic male, possible gang member
Jonathan Pineda, San Francisco, CA. I’ve been living in the Mission District all of my life, due to the gentrification going on and many natives...
I am Mexican, Black, and American
My 6 word memoir is about my family because I am Mexican, but my cousins are black and Mexican. Most of my family is Mexican...
Be mighty whitey not humble honkey
Todd Johnston, Baltimore, MD. Tired of the violence and racism towards productive working white folks that gets swept under rug and buried by the media....
I blend in, wherever I go.
Brenda Footer Silver Spring, MD I live in a very diverse neighborhood, where many El Salvadoran and Dominican families live. People are always trying to...
Black business is GREAT business too!
Anika Dixon, Little Rock, AR. The color of my skin should not determine the type of house I can sell you or the type of...
I hate hearing “The neighborhood changed.”
Glenny Brock , Birmingham, Al. Submitted via Twitter: @glennybrock Always code. In fact, most of the people I’ve heard say this were people who...
Will you still talk to me?
Susan Duncan, Bristol, NH. When I was in the fourth grade, my family moved from Concord, North Carolina, to Leaksville (now Eden), North Carolina. Our...
