Where did you get them from?
Alli Minch, Veneta, OR. When we still lived in California and my biracial twins were very young, a woman stopped me in the store to...
“It’s different, shopping with mom”
Chas. Sundling, Tillamook, OR These words were spoken by one of my two sons. They were spoken a few years back, and led to quite...
“You can pass.” Lifetime identity struggle.
Erica Jameson, Ashland, OR. My parents adopted five muti-racial children, something unheard of in the rural mountain town we lived in. Between being confused about...
“He’s not your son? Oh good!”
Amber Halverson, Eugene, OR. “Oh good! He doesn’t look like he has any white in him at all!” My first real encounter with my own...
We must teach children real history.
Jacquie Pancoast, Gresham, OR We are one race inhabiting this planet with other species. Oppression is about power and control. As a species we appear...
(We) had trouble with another white teacher.
Diana Imhoff, Brookings, OR p>I was raised in a white community, so I had never really seen racism. I taught school in a minority elementary...
Hillbilly – the wrong kind of white.
TR Kelley, Swisshome, OR “White trash” is a hip cultural joke. “N*****” is “hate speech”. Why?
Embedded fear of most black males
Jeffrey Todd, Portland, OR I don’t consider myself to be prejudiced but I sometimes experience a feeling of uneasiness when I encounter certain individuals –...
Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá
Irvania López Toledo, Eugene, OR Growing up as a first-generation American in a white city was difficult for me, growing up. As early as four...
Transracial adoptee in a white home
Riley, Salem, OR Being Chinese and the only POC in an entirely white family has been incredibly harmful to my self-worth and cultural and ethnic...
I’m not your typical Chinese adoptee
Claire, Salem, OR Ever since I was a child I’ve always felt conflicted. As a Chinese adoptee with a white father and a Cuban mother,...
Oh, I expected a Black woman.
Jamila Wolters, Portland, OR I am a White-passing, Mexican woman with an Arabic name and have heard this statement from people of all races. The...
