
Being white is not all right
Larry Burger, Alva, OK I feel like I am often judged as the redneck from Oklahoma. I am embarrassed by the town I live in.
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Larry Burger, Alva, OK I feel like I am often judged as the redneck from Oklahoma. I am embarrassed by the town I live in.
Luis David Garcia Huntsville, TX I am Mexican, my wife is Pacific Islander and our girls were born in Virginia and Texas. My girls are...
Brad Boyer, Lawton, OK Why enough? At the deepest level, my conviction is that the same God with the same love made us all; therefore...
Aaron Matthew Villalobos, Norman, OK. While I’m admittedly more apple pie than beans & rice, I have never felt my heritage as a Mexican-American detracted...
Brad Boyer, Lawton, OK Why enough? At the deepest level, my conviction is that the same God with the same love made us all; therefore...
Abbey Gammill, Lawton, Ok. Im am from the south, and I have grown up listening to elders make racist comments. My mom and dad raised...
Taylor Norman, Norman, OK. White man. Black woman. Two babies that look in between. People never really think before they speak when they see my...
Paula Ann Nichols NiBride, NormN, OK The burning question: would I have done the same as my ancestors?
Roxie Tenequer, Lawton, OK My son begged me for two years to cut his hair. Kids at his school constantly teased him and told him...
Ashley McClure, Canada. Born in the UK to Canadian parents, raised in Canada. My background is English, French, German, Welsh, Metis. I fit nowhere, had...
Aaliyah Blankenship, Tulsa, OK Iām Soooooo Happy To Be BLACK!!!! šŖš½šŖš½šŖš½
James Eliot Griffith Stillwater, OK It’s irritating how in this day and age if I just tell someone I’m Mexican (which is the side of...
Brigitte Dees, Stillwater, OK. Growing up half Japanese, Native American, and white in Oklahoma was a challenge. I don’t look like anyone else and people...
Paul Rojas, Tulsa, OK. I’m going to come out and say it…the same thing thousands, probably millions of people in this country are feeling, at...
Erin Yarbrough, Norman, OK. My husband is half black and half Korean. I’m white. Our son is three races, but I hear and fear that...