Obama isn’t black. He is bi-racial.
Dan Brown, DeWitt, MI. Michele, you can’t have it both ways. If, as you said last night, you view Obama as black (you said “of...
Preference for white doesn’t mean racist
Jann Patterson Hayden, ID The major bad things that have happened to me were because of black people. I was mugged by a group of...
Why does racial prejudice still exist?
Susan Benjamin Roslyn, NY I think so highly of President Obama and have been overwhelmed at the depth of fear and nastiness that has surfaced...
Why is Obama black, not white?
Ed Morganroth, Jr. Plover, WI I have wondered since Mr. Obama broke onto the national scene why both he and the media have always characterized...
Still separate, still unequal! CHANGE NOW
Sophie Dover Jamaica Plain, MA Despite all the gains we have made as a country (which people love to harp on) – a harsh reality...
Prejudice, lying in wait, hidden underneath.
Rhonda Malvern, OH You see it rear it’s ugly head every so often. Like during the first Obama campaign. He was only in office a...
Racism does exist, you shouldn’t lie.
Monica Wesner Rutherfordton, NC I am white and see it everyday in this little Southern town. I know they are lying because whenever they say...
Obama, Holder, Sharpton made me racist!
Chuck Aston Hedgesville, WV I’m a university educated white male raised in a small New England town in the mid-50s. Races mingled in school and...
Being mixed means I am American.
Mattison South Hero, VT For most of my life, society wanted me to choose: White or Black. With President Obama in the White House, finally,...
Depends on where you are/live!
Henry C. Tribble Indianapolis, IN The issues of race became more open when Barrack Obama became the Democratic standard bearer and then elected president. Most...
We have so far to go
Peggy Wagner Kimble Glencoe, IL President Obama’s election in 2008 was one of the highlights of my life. The relentless racist backlash against the President...
Race is not a card game.
J.C. Dade Houston, TX When I listened to the President of the United States speak of having being profiled because he was Black, I recalled...
Half Jewish. Half WASP. All tribal.
Andrea Jill Berman Rochester, NY Grew up working class Jewish in buffalo NY. a very ethnic city. No melting pot there. people kept their ethnic...
Don’t worry, white is STILL right.
AGHillery Upper Marlboro, MD In a “post-racial” era, race is as dominant a factor in people’s lives as it ever was. President Obama notwithstanding, white...
Determined by our genetics or ourselves?
Jane Hortelano Pewaukee, WI This is a question that first occurred to me years ago when I met a friend’s future husband and sister-in-law. The...
