Difficult Childhood With A Racist Father
Anonymous, Omaha, NE. My mother is black and father who I never knew was latino. When I was 3 my mother met and married a...
Ashamed [race] is my first impression
Anonymous, Omaha, NE Whenever I meet someone new, my first impression is “they’re Black”, or “they’re Latino”. I get so many assumptions just based off...
Strength in pedigree proud of race
Tory Robinson, Omaha, NE. I refuse to be fearful growing up in Texas, I learned fear is an obstacle. I now live in Nebraska a...
You can not cross Father Lawler’s street
Joseph L Collins Jr Omaha, NE Ashland Avenue in Chicago was the street you could cross at 69th street or you would get beat up...
Girl, you are not black enough.
Flora Griffith, Omaha, NE. I was eight years old when I first began to feel like an outsider. My school was very segregated, white people...
Recognize differences, realize that’s not bad
Jess, Omaha, NE As a white woman who grew up in the midwest I was always told I shouldn’t talk about the differences, it was...
We’re all different. Different is good.
Rob Hinton, Omaha, NE Many people in my family are/were incredibly and aggressively racist. Growing up I didn’t understand what the jokes meant or the...
Love My Backgrounds, But Spirit First.
Sun Absy, Omaha, NE. My family is incredibly diverse, racially, culturally and religiously. I feel fortunate to have spent a life within environments where peoples’...
White guy can’t walk in’your shoes
Jay Grabow, Omaha, NH. I’m a 52 year old white guy, living in middle class suburbs. Yeah, I’ve struggled to get where I am in...
I’m an expat, he’s an immigrant.
Anonymous, Omaha, NE. Born and raised in the midwest, I studied Spanish and went to live in Latin America. While there, I met my now...
Flatbush Ruined When Blacks Moved In
Will Johnson, Omaha, NE. My father tried to ignore the crime and filth that appeared in the early 1970 in Flatbush, until he at the...
I’m Wendy. Expected to be white.
Wendy A. Merritt, Omaha, NE. I heard Jamaal’s story this morning on my way to work and could see the similarities as an African American...
Just a few feet from Home
Ronald E. Davis, Omaha, NE. I bought my first home in 2003 in a small middle class neighborhood in Western Omaha, Nebraska. My house is...
I adopted two girls from China!
Anonymous. Omaha, NE “Excuse me, what’s your nationality?” “I’m from the U.S.” “No,” he chuckled, “like, where are you originally from?” “I was born and...
