“You can’t say that stuff here”
Danielle R, San Francisco, CA. Someone in response to their friend’s racial slur at a party… How about you can’t say that stuff anywhere? Racism...
Privilege is Ability to Choose Blindness
Hannah Oh, Provo, UT I grew up thinking that “colorblindness” was laudable. To be colorblind was to be “not a racist”. When people brought up...
Yo, dumbass white honky mother f*****
Rudy Owens, Portland, OR. So, you want six words? Here are six I heard so many times I can’t even count them. They came in...
Don’t think I’m like you, I’m not
JP, Harrisburg, NC As a 50-year-old man from the South living in the south I frequently find myself in situations where only men from the...
Return to China you Chinese pigs!
Zhaozheng Tan, Malaysia A Malaysian with Chinese ethnicity, enjoying the flavorful culture and stories we share, but yet discriminated in a land where I was...
We can always change the channel.
Audrey Lee Cho, USA. My parents immigrated to America in 1973, with my older brother Lee Wan Young and my sister, Lee Shin. I was...
White People Tears Are My Lipton’s
Alex Miller, New York, NY. White people. Some of you, not all… please notice that I said SOME…some of you have been wondering, for a...
Trending new minority to hate: whites
Bev Parisi, Greenbelt, MD My mother’s family was told “get out Wop,” because they’re Italian. As I grew up I was called a “Christ-killer” and...
Don’t call White men “White Boys”
Dave Perry, Tampa, FL. This is a derogatory term which belittles and demeans grown white men. I’ve heard this racial slur repeated far too often...
See me, not my skin color.
Refugio Zavala, Stockton, CA. All throughout my life, people have judged me by the color of my skin. When I was in the United States,...
Making fun of Asians is not fun
Seungmin Shin, Korea, Republic of. I’ve been watching standing comedies these days, but I stopped watching it recently. I found a serious irony from those...
Is the word “Haole” racist?
Joel, Honolulu, HI I live in Hawaii and I’ve always gone back and forth about the word “haole”. I tend to use it but I...
I am the token black girl
Chinna Ford, Vallejo, CA. It’s hard work being the token. You must learn to lighten the mood with an acceptable race joke every so often....
We lost our culture to survive.
Brianne Hittenberger, USA. It is the end of me, and I of it. My German last name belongs to me, my disabled brother, and my...
I try, my racism seems hard-wired.
Tim Buer USA My maternal family was from the South. The N-word and racial slurs were part of normal conversation. Those old tapes still roll....
Uppity white mother, shut your mouth
Kristen Hartke Washington, DC I have been a DC public school parent for 14 years, and my daughter is about to graduate from high school....
You’re Not Black, You’re Too White
KayKay Mara, Lancaster, CA. I have spent my whole life being judged by my skin color. It was never a big deal to me since...
