Why isn’t my hair work appropriate
Zuleka Grant, Summerville, SC If you ever look on google for work-appropriate or professional hair it is full of straight hair and Caucasian styles, but...
You’re lucky; you have good hair
Aminah Columbia, SC Being a light-skinned African-American has afforded me the ability to kind of live on multiple sides of the race coin in terms...
Damn Yankees don’t go back home
Patty Reed, Greenville, SC. Originally from Pennsylvania, I’ve lived here the majority of my life but I cannot say I’m a native South Carolinian. While...
I fear for my former students
Bill Damude, Beaufort, SC After 38 years of teaching, I think about my former students and athletes of color and how I fear for them...
I am buying what you’re selling.
Vicki DiPaolo, Charleston, SC. It is the basic instinct of survival that causes us to evaluate our environment and decide if what we see is...
I look white & I’m not racist.
Lynn, Great Falls, SC. I tend to look white; especially when not in the sun. I’m actually a mix of: European (German, Irish, & British),...
I can shop all by myself
Tierra Wells Holly Hill, SC Personally I have not experience this, but there has been stories told to me about this subject. When an African...
My history is layered, not linear
Holly Grodt, The University of New Hampshire, Bluffton, SC My family history may seem very straight forward when you look at me: white, able-bodied young...
Surprise surprise I was born here
Victoria, Fairfax, VA. I was born in Conway, SC. I’ve lived in the States for nearly two decades now (all of my life so far)....
Who lives here? You or him?
Beth Brawley, Columbia, SC. My son is mixed race and when he was young a neighbor had a cousin over. They wanted to shoot a...
Change On Counter Not In Hand
Kristina T. Sanders Sumter, SC A regular day at work turned into an eye opening experience. I had helped a customer pick out a pair...
I thought I knew, but didn’t.
Erica Tjelta, Spartanburg, SC. After growing up and living in rural and small-town Wisconsin for my first thirty-six years of my life–it was a shocking...
