Scotch tape no longer clings here.
Malcolm Ian Mackenzie, Naples, NY. My mom and Dad immigrated from Canada in the early fifties with two children Canadian-born and eleven were born in...
I don’t want to be hated.
Juliet Rose, Banning, CA. Hi, my name is Juliet, and I’m white. Well, white-passing. I’m 1/8th Filipino and I still don’t know if that even...
We Don’t Consider You White Anyway
Daniel Martin, Jr. Mayfield, PA. In 2007, I was working in a bakery. For whatever reason, I happened to be one of very few white...
Another day, another life, another hashtag.
Sydney McDonald, Bangor, ME. In the past few years, a lot of lives have been lost. These lives, like Michael Brown, Ervin Edwards, Tamir Rice,...
Infertility = anonymous sperm donor…my race____?
Donor Conceived USA My dad will always be my dad, but at the age of 30, my parents decided it was time to tell me...
You will play Rachael from Isreal.
Margret Treiber, Naples, FL. Let me preface this with the fact that I don’t openly despise the holiday season. I have nothing against the passing...
Society is crashing, be white passing.
Jake Carrasco O’Connell, San Francisco, CA. I chose my six words to be: society is crashing, be white passing. I chose these six words because...
Jigaboo, high yellow, octoroon, passing, pickaninny, mixed
Teri V. Markanson, Crescent City, CA. Before I knew what the definitions were, these words were used to describe me as a young child.
White voice, black skin, awkward interviews.
Sara Bee Boston, MA I have been passing as “white” most of my life–on the phone. People of all stripes seem to have misconceptions about...
I’m not a percentage of anything.
Chris Tanaka, Lake Grove, NY. I am a whole, white passing, Japanese, Native American, French Canadian person. I am not half of this or a...
Unwillingly passing, race card isn’t mine.
April Faye Weathers, Los Angeles, CA. I’m light skinned and have always felt self-conscious about my skin tone. Growing up, my white mom taught my...
It’s easier to say I’m white.
Marcella Gucho, Sacramento, CA. I’m half Hispanic and half Irish, and it’s put me a few interesting positions with other groups of people. For instance,...
Saw an ugly world too early
Diana Ryan Millbury, MA My last name notwithstanding, I am 100% Puerto Rican through and through. That is an ethnicity, not a race but too...
It reminds me freedom is possible.
Mickey Lambert New York City, NY Brooklyn In a time that most people think of as a “post-civil-rights” era, in many ways, we are more...
Only one race, the Human Race!
Eddie Smith, Lakeland, FL. At least our children seem to understand this. We must allow them to value this reality and stop passing our ignorance...
