What? They’re not from outer space!
Kathy E. McCabe, Columbia, SC. Yes, these were the words running through my mind back in 1968, while standing outside amongst the rest of the...
White males are kings of entitlement
Dave Fuss, Myrtle Beach, SC. I hear a lot of talk about entitlement programs, typically implying that someone is getting away with something or getting...
White Southerner Does Not Equate Racist
Shelly Spivey, Taylors, SC. My northern friends assume that because I was born and raised in the south that I am a racist. I’m not....
When’s the next bus for Lobeco?
Joe Fournelle, Stuarts Draft, VA. Spring 1969. I was a 20-year-old Marine at the Greyhound bus station in Beaufort, SC waiting for transportation to Cherry...
Its an ugly yet beautiful word
Kadeem Thomas-Evans, Columbia, SC. When I hear the word race I feel strange it’s like there making it seem like your different from every one...
Dad’s stories of south; I’m outraged.
Dianne Goodwin Brant, Cambria, CA. My Dad used to travel to South Carolina in the late 50s-early 60s. He told me of the segregated bathrooms,...
Race is everything, race is nothing.
John Daws Tucson, AZ I learned this years ago from an elderly black woman in a coffee shop in Manhattan. She said, “For black people,...
Stop making your problem my fault.
Anonymous Orangeburg, SC Often the discussion about racism is constructed as a problem with race. As if the problem isn’t with the majority’s racist attitudes,...
I apologize to Sue’s family.
Carole Woods Sequim, WA Sue worked for my grandmother without pay in Sumter, South Carolina, from her teenage years in the early 20th century until...
I’m not a mutt, I’m human
Krystal Moss Columbia, SC I’m 16 years old and growing up around Blythewood SC was a really hard thing. When I was little kids would...
I think people should like “each other”
Shakeiva Coleman Columbia, SC I am tall, light skin, goofy, and silly and love to eat.
Think, Together we can achieve more.
Patrick Marbut Columbia, SC Don’t hang on to history, be the bigger person and accept differences.
