Don’t be scared just love me
Warren Ombayo, Lubbock, TX I’m a College freshman at Texas Tech. My whole life there has always been one teacher or person of public authority...
Own it, even when you’re scared.
Lindsey Haken, Little Rock, IA I’m from George-Little Rock High School, and I chose these six words because this is a piece of advice I...
White, but scared to be alone.
Hailey Mosher, Derry, NH While I am white and live in a privileged world, I am still afraid to be alone in public places, especially...
Left Crying in the Bathroom Floor
Charlie, USA. I brought my car in for an oil change (in the predominantly black area I live in) and they told me that it’d...
Confederate flags everywhere. Scares me immensely.
Kitra Mwania, Branson, MO. The confederate flag clearly means something important to the people around here. Being a black person who learned that this flag...
Scared that we are not enough
Tanya, Manakin Sabot, VA. My (adopted) son is biracial, his bio-father is unknown. I will never be able to connect him with his biological African...
White mother glad sons biracial 2021
Monae Dasher, El Paso, TX I was the white girl that embraced integration in school, first to befriend the one or two Black children my...
Scared to say the wrong thing
Grace Fry, Whitesville, NY p>As a white person I grew up not having to worry about getting pulled over or judged or treated differently just...
Black man, white girl kissing; beautifully scared.
Tracey Rae Palmer, Myrtle Beach, SC. I was told never to kiss a n***** or get close to them; they would only rob you or...
I wanna help but I’m scared.
Nichole Proctor, Harriman, TN Being white and living in the south can be scary. My husband and I carry white guilt. We know we’re privileged...
I was bussed. I was scarred.
Andrea Stewart, Brooklyn, NY. When I was in third grade I was bussed from the predominantly white side of town to the predominantly black side...
Being black in a white town.
Noel Hudson, ME I go to college in a pretty white community. There are about 10-20 black people out of 600 students. I grew up...
I was scared of my race
Kiesha Ireland-Tran San Francisco, CA I am an African American girl, yet I grew up scared of black people. I felt that I was unsafe...
Scared that we are not enough
Tanya, Manakin Sabot, VA. My (adopted) son is biracial, his bio-father is unknown. I will never be able to connect him with his biological African...
Why are people like me scared?
Tom Lewis, Phoenix, AZ. Most “white” people in the USA are descended from people who were considered “other” and often not even white when these...
From love – fear, (a) foreigner’s view (on) racism.
David Chen, New York, NY. I grew up in China listening to artists like 50 cent, Tupac, Snoop dogg (lion), and Jay-Z. I have every...
Whites are scared to be minority
Luis E. Pacheco, Ceiba, Puerto Rico. As a Puerto Rican in my mid-60s, who has lived two-thirds of his life in the Continental USA, it’s...
