I belong to the human race!
Jamey Fitzpatrick, Grand Ledge, MI. My parents taught me to respect and celebrate all people of the world.
Not just a spoiled white girl
Cassidy-Rae Bastarache, Gardner, MA I’m white and some people assume that I am privileged and have money based on some of the expensive things that...
Mexican parents, American kids, broken home.
Jameson Magdaleno Sacramento, CA This is my personal observation as a Mexican American regarding the plight of families with illegal immigrant parents who have children...
One white, one brown, same parents.
Adana, Seattle, WA. I have 2 children. My son looks just like his papa: dark, wavy hair and alabaster skin. My daughter looks like me:...
Never arrested for Driving While White.
Deb Vaughn, Gaithersburg, MD. I can drive around with anything in my car and never get a traffic stop. If I were a Person of...
I’m proud of my immigrant parents!
Priscilla A Contreras, Garden Grove, CA. My parents came to the United States to create a better future for themselves and their children. They are...
Just found out I’m a Jew
Larry, Orlando, FL. In closing up my elderly parents’ home, I was given some family news I did not expect from a relative I haven’t...
Embrace both change and your person
Michael Chin, Los Altos, CA. I am personally grateful for both the East Asian cultural values passed down to me by my Chinese parents, as...
So, how did your parents meet?
Alexander Chee, Submitted via Twitter: @alexanderchee #theracecardproject Portrait of My Father by: Alexander Chee REPOST from...
Parents’ interracial marriage seems selfish sometimes
Anonymous, Santa Cruz, CA I’m tired of my bi-racial experience being used as proof of progress… Sometimes I think my parents were selfish to have...
Hated for being a white coach
Michael, Beaumont, CA. I was hated for being a white football coach in a nearly all black school. It didn’t matter that I had the...
Not allowed together because of race.
Vika Linvell, Las Vegas, NV. My fiancee and I are happily together (Most of the time if we’re alone and actually able to see each...
My parents, grandparents and ancestors, where European
Gildo Filipe Paradisi, Brazil. Other informons: I was born in Brazil and I am son of Italian father and Portuguese mother. My grandparents and great-grandparents...
Wish I was not a racist
Brian Smith, Sugar Land, TX. Part of me wish I wasn’t racist. I did my best not to be like my parents when I was...
Black, white, Puerto Rican mix; not me!
Arleny, Riverside, CA. I am of no race other than myself. My parents are both Mexican, but being judge wrongly for something I’m is not...
