Your insecurities, limit my opportunities, STOP.
Benjamin Macedo, Mountain View, CA. Racism is largly due to the lack of trust amongst people. This feeling unfortunately tends to be distributed through media...
Race feels different everywhere you go
Sky, Skowhegan, ME. In mostly white places like Maine, I feel like there’s not very much obvious discrimination or prejudice. In 50/50 places like New...
You can’t do that, you’re white!
Abigail Macy, Zimbabwe. I am a white American living in Zimbabwe. It never ceases to amaze me how much racism I experience, how much prejudice...
Prejudice ends when?…….. it becomes useless
Andrew Kewer, Tucson, AZ. Prejudice only continues because people find it useful But people can fill in that statement how they see fit. As a...
Blacks prejudice against Hispanics school children
Anna Hill, Dallas, TX. I assist Hispanic school children with their homework after school. They bring their issues to me and the majority are black...
It’s not racism; it’s rational prejudice.
Mike Padden, Chicago, IL. The conversation would be much if improved if the inflammatory and innacurate term “racism” were substituted with the much more accurate...
Most Qualified Blacks Are Chosen First
Fredrick Clemmons Brentwood, TN When I grew up I heard a lot of statements that suggested White people did not want to hire Blacks. But...
I just found out I’m prejudice.
Jenna Roberts Sacramento, CA I was raised in a low income area, primarily white and latino. My experience with African Americans was very limited until...
Why does racial prejudice still exist?
Susan Benjamin Roslyn, NY I think so highly of President Obama and have been overwhelmed at the depth of fear and nastiness that has surfaced...
“We don’t do ethnic hair here”
Sahra Hassan Minneapolis, MN This was said to me by a hair stylist the minute I walked into a salon. Ironically, my hair was cover...
Racism is the problem – not race
Kim Robinson South Africa Race exists. Race is a social construct. To assert that because race is not a biological phenomenon and therefore, there is...
Passing down prejudices tragically survives generations
Ann Elizabeth Hemphill Quartz Hill, CA Born in ’46 in Midwest, visiting with relatives in Florida each year, adult years in California. From my early...
Internet tell stories, without showing color
Kunal Fremont, CA Sometimes, the internet is the only way to get a fair hearing without the prejudice.
Predjudice free means seeing beneath skin
Wendy Fillmore Ithaca, NY I have a beautiful son who has darker skin than myself. He also has a very unusual name which he loves....
I don’t know, I’ll ask him
Mary Garris Lakeland, FL This was the response when I asked my son if his new friend in Kindergarten was a little black boy. He...
Race: only one facet of prejudice
Scott Pangrle Chimacum, WA A lot of us probably face prejudice on many levels.
Black on black prejudice hinders advancement
Jay Poynte Virginia Beach, VA A friend of mine, a 30 something black woman, was working full time and going to school part time. Originally...
Sorry we don’t service that neighborhood
Ingrid Monson Newton, MA I’m white but lived in a black neighborhood in Chicago for part of the 1990s. I tried to get a plumbing...
