It’s not racism if they’re Native
Arthur Webster Carlsbad, CA Obviously, this shouldn’t be the case, but often I feel as though people think it is ok. I live North of...
Xenophobia or racism? They are different.
Robert San Francisco, CA Fear of outsiders is not the same as hate for outsiders. Urban cultural stereotypes popularized and promoted by the very individuals...
Sexism: worse than racism. It’s complicated.
Woman, Raleigh, NC. Yes, racism exists and at times, thrives, but if you’re a woman of color, you’re more likely to be affected than your...
Things Change to Stay the Same
Amye, New Orleans, LA. As far as we come and as much as we make progress it seems as if we keep falling into cycles...
Fear that racism will never end
Joan Pleune New York City, NY Brooklyn I was a 1961 freedom rider. When I look at Brooklyn today through a lens of race, life...
Washtenaw students use The Race Card Project to confront bullying
Powerful words from a high school student—shared during the second annual Youth Diversity Forum with a room full of Washtenaw County high schoolers—helped set the...
Only whites can truly ignore racism
Bjorn Leslie Harlson Seattle, WA For the longest time I was not fully aware of my own privilege. I would be one of those crying...
Skin is white, race is HUMAN!
Janet Urban Aurora, IL I was raised in a small all-white town and never saw a black person except on TV until I was 17...
Racism makes the otherwise unbelievable, believable.
Jusitn J. Major, Wheaton, IL. Kenyan, Socialist, Fascist, Crypto-Islamist AND Anti-White Christian? All of those and more are simultaneously believable about the President of the...
White people do not own racism
Matt Rose Sterling Heights, MI For five years I was a SHARP (Skinhead Against Racial Prejudice.) In those five years, every preconceived notion I had...
Racism is fear; fear is senseless.
Jeffrey Deffenbaugh Kensington, MD I grew up in what was the most diverse zip code in the country at the time in the sixties, 20895....
Despite our efforts, racism still exists.
Martin M. Guerra San Antonio, TX Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation Originally I wanted to write “Despite our best efforts, racism persists”. However,...
