Just a few feet from Home
Ronald E. Davis, Omaha, NE. I bought my first home in 2003 in a small middle class neighborhood in Western Omaha, Nebraska. My house is...
FREEZE! You’re GUILTY until proven INNOCENT!
Ephron McCullough, Perris, CA. Said the MALL COP to the young BLACK man. The security camera said different! I’m FREE, because I was INNOCENT! NOT...
Who Am I: Not Michael Brown
Christopher Allen Cummings, USA. The notion circulating among a few of my black friends is that as a black man I should feel represented in...
Stop using RACE as an excuse.
Renee Chapman, Colbert, WA. I have seen race used as an excuse for bad behavior or saying something is happening to someone because they are...
This is still not yet over.
Sarah Butler, Weymouth, MA. I am not blind to the similarities of then and now. A newspaper cover connected the past and present for me...
White interracially married sudden paradigm shift.
Barbara Young, Stockton, CA. I’ve realized my own white privilege for some time now. But being the white female half of an interracial marriage, I...
All power I see is white
Erin, St. Louis, MO. In my world today I associate power with people who are white. All my teachers and school leaders, white. My parents,...
I’m white, I’m lucky; not fair.
Astrid afKlinteberg Gloucester, MA As a criminal defense attorney I am reminded constantly that I am privileged because I am white. I’ve represented many minority...
I HATE BEING BLACK EVERY DAY!
JJ JONES Roanoke, VA I am a happy person by nature. But as each day progresses I see the results of a group of Americans...
Racial dispute, four white officers respond.
Laura Moog Portland, OR I witnessed two 11 or 12 year old boys, one white, one black, hurling racial epithets at each other in the...
Will My Son Get Shot Too?
Nikai Mutagaana Freedom, PA Is this still a free country? Then why are so many African American young people getting shot by police for being...
Other Blacks often police Blackness
David San Francisco, CA Policing blackness is when other African Americans determine what views are acceptable and then deintergrate or cast out fellow African Americans...
“What are YOU doing here?”
Glenn Dixon Ft. Worth, TX Those were the words that opened my eyes to the state of racism in America. At the time, I was...
Does “The Talk” include crime statistics?
Peter Gwynn Washington, DC Police and everybody else, despite any amount of training and good intentions, are still just people and will be influenced by...
My sons are potential murderers
Tanisha Henderson Raleigh, NC There is perception and then there is reality. What do you do when those lines cross and the reality is you...
Black, and suffering for uncommitted crimes.
Victor Bradley Nashville, TN This is both a reference to the broader stereotyping which has pervaded the Black experience in America from the slave trade...
Pulled Over. Charge? Driving While Black!
Arnie Gundersen Burlington, VT I am white, teaching in the “whitest” state in the Union. Yet Burlington has a huge immigrant and black community. While...
