How white of me to participate.
Ben Guyton, Eugene, OR This is mostly a dig at me– for the impulse to submit a phrase as if it meant I was helping...
I wouldn’t ride my bike naked!
Tricia Tillman, Portland, OR. I have a funny story about how race and gentrification interact. My son walked out the front door of our house...
Unimportant until I was taught otherwise
Harrison Bartels, Sandy, OR Growing up I thought that racism was something that was largely in the past, except for a couple of outliers. This...
Yes, that is my real name.
Hyosim Nancy Collins, Beaverton, OR. My middle name is Nancy. I was born in South Korea and arrived in the United States when I was...
A missplaced comma, in fluid sentences.
Anil Oommen Eugene, OR University of Oregon I am brown, a Malayalee, a person of Indian descent in a primarily white setting. This is often...
To us, there was no boundary to love.
Elysia, Portland, OR. We are expecting our first child in December 2015.
Resisting arrest matters more than race.
Jack Carson, Portland, OR Black Lives Matter cherry-picks bad arrests and pretends that exceptions outweigh rules. It also trivializes high black crime rates, which draw...
Grandma said I looked too haole.
Carol Silva Portland, OR My step-grandma danced, taught, and had her own hula group who performed during the week on Oahu. Once when she and...
Topic: slavery. All eyes on Brooke
Daniel Portland, OR I grew up in a working-class and ever-so-slightly diverse part of a very white city, but I the bus across town with...
Mother’s warnings at four, instilled racism.
Carmen Davis Portland, OR I was a very young child from the Midwest traveling with my mother by train to Detroit in the 1940’s. There...
Why am I always Monopoly Banker?
Sasha Feoktistov, Eugene, OR Jews as a minority group are put in a particularly awkward place. Because we enjoy most if not all of the...
Blacks won’t let me be friendly
Randa New, Hillsboro, OR. While passing blacks walking on the sidewalk black adult looks away while their child will smile back at me. How can...
Korean-Argentine Orphan. What is heritage?
Jacky Grey, Eugene, OR Having no connection to my heritage thorough my parents makes me feel like an imposter when I meet “real” people do...
I WILL try, but can’t understand
Luke Brockman, Oregon State University, Blachly, OR My six words are an attempt to underline my privilege in this country. I’m white, but have never...
Well…there’s so many minorities now…
Tony Reyes, Portland, OR. I’m half Latino. My mother is a white, evangelical, conservative. I came home the night Obama was re-elected and asked if...
