Native American, but always called white.
Lateshia Locklear-Theroux Rock Hill, SC All my life I have called white. Even growing up in my tribal community (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) I...
Crazy driver. Rude Midwesterner. White female.
Lisa Schwager Muncie, IN Many people automatically assume that I am a bad driver because I am a female. I have never been in an...
Mr. Joe White Avenue, Black honored.
Babara Sloan Wallingford, CT In Myrtle Beach, SC, Mr. Joe White was a local black man who washed windows of many stores, including that of...
There might be little black children.
Caroline Hutton Raszewski Columbia, SC As boycotts and riots raged around the South in the early 60’s I was oblivious. It was the first day...
Remnants of racism hide in me.
Gail Dawson Mt. Pleasant, SC I consider myself a liberal non-racist, always a fighter for equality for all, but have to honestly admit that latent...
Black life is not valued.
Patricia Jones Charleston, SC My husband and I are the parents of an 18-year-old son who just graduated from high school. As we raised him...
Race: Nonexistent. Humanity is a continuum!
Joe Gandalf, Pickens, SC. At age 5 I was told that “negroes” (the polite term in the 50s) were no different from any one else....
White privilege equals open vernacular relishment
Kathryn Sanders Summerville, SC I am white Southern woman . I will never forget overhearing a group of white co-workers harshly criticize a black co-worker’s...
I’m sorry, we don’t hire women
Pam Cunningham Lexington, SC This is what I heard in 1970 in my Senior year at Virginia Tech about to receive my degree in math...
What would make you more comfortable?
Erica Shindler Fuller Briggs North Charleston, SC What are you? I get asked this question so often I’ve started charging people for the information. It’s...
I was white, now I’m Cherokee
Jennie Rhinehart Spartanburg, SC I never knew until I did my father’s family tree that he had Cherokee ancestry. When I told him, he got...
We’re all Americans stop separating us!
Mike Gaither Hanahan, SC We need to stop dividing ourselves in groups. We need to join together and accept our differences or ultimately our differences...
