Cops can’t see us with you
Alexander Hileman Commerce City, CO People are afraid in parts of the USA to be seen with white people. I was down in Texas, and...
My white skin: my guaranteed protection
Delaney, Amarillo, TX Since I am a white woman, the world doesn’t see me as a threat or danger. I have the privilege of walking...
Law Enforcement on Stereotypes and Misfortune
Malachi Hicks, Kennesaw, GA Both my parents are officers in law enforcement. many police officers are good, but there are a few bad apples that...
I will burn the house down.
Eric Chesapeake Beach, MD 1974, I was 14 years old; my dad was in the Army, we were moving to Ohio from Weaver, Alabama. The...
Cops beat me. Spoke up, anyway!!
Theo E.J. Wilson, Denver, CO. After being beaten by the police, I took an activist journey that landed me on the TED stage. This is...
“You don’t look Jamaican or Cuban”
Michael A. Caldas, Miami, FL I’m a Cuban and Jamaican descent mix. Most people when they look at me think that I am either Cape...
My Skin Color Poses a Threat
Mia Woodard, Dallas, TX Because of my skin color, when I’m out in public I am looked at with disgust and spoken to rudely. Because...
People label me white. Thank goodness.
Jeremiah Friedman, Durham, NH As a young man of Polish heritage from both sides of my family, I have many of the physical characteristics that...
Stop acting like blacks are saints
Jimmy, New York, NY Obviously 400 years of segregation is the cause of today’s black society. And obviously, there is a tremendous amount of white...
My Dad’s a cop, Am I Racist?
William McCullough, Opelika, AL Especially now in today’s world police get labeled with racists. Why is this? I believe that it’s because of the actions...
Not all cops are bad cops
Manveer Singh, Auburn, WA Just because there are a couple of crooked/racist cops doesn’t mean all are the same. With everything going on with our...
I’m cutting off ties with Black People
Elmer R Hemingway, Pearland, TX Tired of the black community’s victim mentality, entitlement (reparations), massive racism based on skin color…. a glorified level of bullying....
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...
Then he died in our alley.
Sue Blanshan, Okemos, MI. My family lived in segregated Georgia when I was young. A playmates mother called the police to report a black man...
Lights flipped, pulled over, relax brother
JC Ousley Houston, TX In 1998 I bought a new red corvette despite my mother’s plea, she said the car was trouble for a black...
Men I love aren’t safe here
Arlinda Vaughn, Dayton, OH. My partner is a tall, dark muscular black man (with a PHD). When he lived in Texas, the police arrived at...
White men run errands too
Michael Kelley Los Angeles, CA I am a White man and when I am out running errands, some Black or Hispanic person will invariably ask...
