Oh, I expected a Black woman.
Jamila Wolters, Portland, OR I am a White-passing, Mexican woman with an Arabic name and have heard this statement from people of all races. The...
I wouldn’t ride my bike naked!
Tricia Tillman, Portland, OR. I have a funny story about how race and gentrification interact. My son walked out the front door of our house...
To us, there was no boundary to love.
Elysia, Portland, OR. We are expecting our first child in December 2015.
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...
Grandma said I looked too haole.
Carol Silva Portland, OR My step-grandma danced, taught, and had her own hula group who performed during the week on Oahu. Once when she and...
Topic: slavery. All eyes on Brooke
Daniel Portland, OR I grew up in a working-class and ever-so-slightly diverse part of a very white city, but I the bus across town with...
Mother’s warnings at four, instilled racism.
Carmen Davis Portland, OR I was a very young child from the Midwest traveling with my mother by train to Detroit in the 1940’s. There...
Well…there’s so many minorities now…
Tony Reyes, Portland, OR. I’m half Latino. My mother is a white, evangelical, conservative. I came home the night Obama was re-elected and asked if...
“Doesn’t affect me!” Yes, it does.
Erin Lovejoy, Portland, ME I grew up in an extremely white town. There was almost no diversity anywhere to be found. Maine is predominantly white,...
I wonder what he’s doing there?
Edward Hershey, Portland, OR. My mom, a Stevenson Democrat, and I were walking home from the subway in Brooklyn ca. 1955 when she spotted a...
Very white city. Emergency Shelter: Technicolor
Annie Rosen Portland, OR Manager for Women’s Winter Shelter (Transition Project)
Salad topped with melted American nightmare
Hyung Nam Portland, OR Melting pot was for the construction of whiteness
Dirty drunk Indians, but not you.
Doey Cushman, Portland, OR. So I am of mixed race Chinook Indian and northern European. Many times white people forget and will talk about natives...
Often Ashamed of Being White Male
Anthony Whittum, Portland, OR. As I get older (56) racism seems more prevalent or at least more “advertised” by those that hold racist beliefs. Or...
Privileged. No choice in the matter.
Kole Myrick, Portland, OR. As a trans man I often feel very marginalized, but when you look at it based solely on race, I have...
