You are dirt. So I scrubbed.
Melody Rabassa SUNY Potsdam, NY No difference. We are all human We can learn. Just need time
Give invisible minorities a chance at brilliance
Anne, New York, NY. Minorities in America are often discriminated against for no good reason other than the color of their skin or the language...
Mom, talk about your “black firsts.”
Janice Lowe New York City, NY My mother, Dr. Willa Lowe was one of the first black English teachers in several high schools in New...
Wear a suit? He’s a “pimp”.
Chris Thompson, Rochester, NY. I have been an engineer for 13 years, and I notice that when I don the regular business casual attire, colleagues...
Made up concept to divide us.
Lilia Hadjiivanova, New York, NY Racism sucks. I definitely experience “white guilt” in moments when I catch myself with bias and I am trying to...
I was American, now just white
Charles, San Francisco, CA, New Rochelle, NY, Worldwide Essayist Richard Rodriguez, said it best back in 1997, what can be the American inability to not...
I’m much more than my accent
Franchesca Guzman, Bronx, NY When I introduced myself to new people they might just get stuck in my accent, but I am so much more...
I’m Middle Eastern but I’m white?
Ilana New York, NY I grew up in Israel to a father born in Germany and a mother born in the United States. Yet every...
Pain, black reaction OJ Simpson verdict
David J. Shapiro New York City, NY Manhattan After so much sacrifice, blood, time and heartache by whites who supported the Civil Rights Movements, to...
Although it divides, I find beauty
Simone Pratt Brooklyn, NY I can talk about race all day… I work in multicultural advertising so it’s what I do, but outside of work...
Surprised that dreadlocks are racially charged.
Terence P Ward New Paltz, NY I’m one year in to a five-year exploration of dreadlocks as a participant-observer, so I can learn about the...
I help; I’m not THE help.
Eric N Peguero, New York, NY We, Latinos, may raise your children, do your laundry and clean your floors, but we are not THE HELP....
