Is Anything Wrong With Racial Profiling?
Fred Moolten Canonsburg, PA Please forgive the provocative title. I don’t mean it literally, nor am I even sure what is meant by “racial profiling”....
Sheltered white girl now values diversity.
Jennifer Rapach Pittsburgh, PA I grew up in rural Western Pennsylvania in a public school that was 100% white, 100% Christian. Before I went to...
My race is human. Yours, too.
Nixi Chesnavich Pittsburgh, PA I was raised by a racist. My grandfather had a bias against everyone who wasn’t exactly like him. Even as a...
Interracial couples: we are the future.
Jeffery Ward Pittsburgh, PA WE are a mixed couple. They said our love would never last, but we just celebrated 14 years together. As a...
Whites feared blacks. blacks fear white?
Jeff Myers Philadelphia, PA I’m 35 and growing up in Philadelphia we always lived in mixed neighborhoods. I can remember being the victim of a...
Are you black, Asian, or normal?
Jenna Overton Langhome, PA I’m a half-black college student. My friends and I were having a discussion about race one day and a few of...
I’m tired of being called privileged
Anonymous Erie, PA At one point I worked three jobs just to make ends meet and pay student loan bills. I’m tired of people saying...
Slavery’s legacy haunts “value” of blacks
Piper Kendrix Williams Wyndmoor, PA This morning (6/27/13) I heard the story on Morning Edition’s Race Card segment of the sliding fee scale based on...
White is a color. Who knew?
Catherine Philadelphia, PA When I taught a rhetoric course dealing with race at Carnegie Mellon University, I was amazed that my students often forgot that...
Ching-chong yourself, I’m not Chinese!
Thuc Luong Philadelphia, PA I am Asian and when I was a kid about 6 years old I moved to the US, this is when...
