White is not a default color.
Diana Lambert Kansas City, KS I find that children who have one “white” parent and one “non-white” parent are often decidedly identified as the non-white...
Obama’s election ripped off the band-aid
Submitted via Twitter: @Munsonism @michele_norris #theracecardproject
We meander toward lovely caramel coatings.
Mary Lewis Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project – University of Michigan I remember that photo of Barack Obama’s extended family after his inauguration. It...
Obama: hero, not target. Who knew?
Douglas Banik Redding, CT Having come of age in the ’60s, I had great fear for Barack Obama;s safety. The fact that he is entering...
WW TWO VETERAN POTUS BARACK OBAMA
Leo Howard Galloway Oakland, CA Retired military. As PIC of the annual Veteran’s day celebration at St. Benedict Catholic Church, I knew despite the outcome...
Disagreeing with Obama makes me racist?
Cynthia Ruccia Columbus, OH I am white but Jewish, and I grew up in a time when the Jews were barred from many many things...
Obama has created a class war….
Dina Reed Charleston, SC Since we elected a black president, it is difficult to divide us by race…so Obama has decided to create a divison...
Sure, but would you marry one?
Tom Bethesda, MD When my (white) mother worked at NAACP in the 60’s my Dad infamously questioned her sincerity. Mom died a decade ago. Dad...
What my southern mom taught me.
Donna Lovelady Indianapolis, IN Born in the south in 1924, mom was the granddaughter of a slave owner. She saw blacks pushed to the back...
If Zimmerman’s “White” Obama’s “White” too
Bill Sage Honolulu, HI Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation
Race, always an issue. Really? Really.
Clyde Taylor Milwaukee, WI I’m 56. When I was a teen, I thought that by now (the 21st century) race would be far less an...
“Vote (for) Obama! He looks like me!”
Jessica Sheffield Age 8 Iowa Jessica Sheffield at age 8 as quoted by her adoptive father, Val Sheffield at the University of Iowa He wonders,...
O.J trial + President Obama’s election
Brenda Curtright Lenexa, KS The true reality of the historical racial discord in America. During the O.J.Simpson trial and the election of our first Black...
