Playing by everyone’s rules is exhausting
Anonymous, Madison, WI. To Fred down the street I’m half-Asian; to Nick the bus driver I’m from southern France; Veronica thinks I’m obviously Native; McKayla...
The race card is the Joker
Karen Michel Pleasant Valley, NY Faceted, on the move, always changing the rules; what rules?
The elephant in our nation’s bedroom
Jonscott Williams Gilbert, AZ I am “openly Black”, though I have been described by some Whites as someone who “happens to be Black”, as if...
Field seems level, rules never square.
Charles Edward Stanfield Chicago, IL The people know my work.
He’s not allowed in this house
Linda Basilicato Frederick, MD My mother’s comment on my new, polite, handsome, articulate, smart, college boyfriend in 1993. “I had black friends–in school.” (My mother’s...
