The property values will go down
Lynn Cary, NC I heard this the other day from a neighbor. I heard this when I was a young girl. It made me so...
Called me white boy, I’m pissed.
Mario Latilleon Memphis, TN Being a light-skinned, articulate, and somewhat nerdy African-American boy can be a curse growing up in a poor black neighborhood in...
White girl. Black school. Called “slave owner.”
Erin Murphy Barling, AK I grew up in a mostly African American neighborhood outside Miami, Florida. My friends never made me feel out of place...
You didn’t grow up in LA
Eileen Spillman Wilsonville, OR That was the line my husband threw at me whenever we argued about his burgeoning racism. I had grown up in...
There’s a lot of ‘pepper’ here.
Penny Miceli Keene, NH This is what my husband and I (both white) were told by our realtor (also white) when driving through a neighborhood...
Skin is white, race is HUMAN!
Janet Urban Aurora, IL I was raised in a small all-white town and never saw a black person except on TV until I was 17...
