White, asked to leave shoe store
Steven Smith Lake Grove, NY My parents raised me race neutral. I grew up in an integrated neighborhood, and racism didn’t come on my radar...
Mommy, is my sister from India?
Tata Traore-Rogers Brooklyn, NY My 4 year old asked me this about her 7 year sister ” she actually said ” Mommy, is Saffronia Indian?”...
But I don’t really see color.
Freddi Brown-Carter New York, NY I wonder what else you don’t see? Do you see my gender, do you notice the gray hair? I don’t...
Diversity Means Add A Few More
Ambika Howell Rochester, NY Funny how when you hear the word “diversity” being used to talk about how workplaces, etc., are attempting to appear to...
Not an Oreo cookie; an American.
Conrad Folkes, Royersford, PA. I’m a first-generation American of Jamaican descent. I was born in Brooklyn, NY and moved to a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA...
Full-blooded white European DNA; proud Viking!
Lynn Magnusson Jamestown, NY All around the world white nations are being flooded with third-world Moslam immigrants. Almost every nation in Europe; the U.S., Canada,...
Predjudice free means seeing beneath skin
Wendy Fillmore Ithaca, NY I have a beautiful son who has darker skin than myself. He also has a very unusual name which he loves....
But your kids won’t be white.
Elizabeth New York, NY This is what a family member said to me upon announcing my engagement to a black man. It was actually more...
Want to forget, need to remember
Catherine Clark Rochester, NY Thank you for creating this site. I will encourage my college students to create their race cards.
You don’t have an accent.
Susan Lee New York, NY On the phone no one can tell I’m Asian-American, but in person I sometimes elicit this response. Because I am...
Thought more would change in 60’s
Robin Bass Brooklyn, NY I’m glad for the progress made…but frustrated that we still have so far to go
Black friend and I spat upon.
Ruth Strassberg Shandaken, NY 1962 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan!
