Double closet for gay black men
Chris Porter, Seattle, WA. Living in two worlds where aceptance is difficult gives way to the double closet for many gay black men.
We are taught white is superior.
Jen, Seattle, WA Any white American who says they are not racist is either not honest with themselves or they have been locked in a...
Turning away costs us almost everything
Jessica H, Seattle, WA. A society which chooses to live with such oppression and misery becomes a society without trust or hope: a nation of...
Self Identifying as Black
Heather, Seattle, WA. I grew up as a black female in the US and I’m happy with that. Why are we now expected to identify...
LGBTQ people represent the rainbow race.
Jeff Keever Seattle, WA I just wish people would get out of their minds that the focus on “race” only includes some sort of ethnic...
Invisible African American immigrant Chinese son
Nic Rossouw, Seattle, WA. My son and I are both immigrants. I left apartheid South Africa in 1983. My family are white Africans who have...
Parents gave me Confederate flag: protection
Steve Morris, Seattle, WA. In the mid-1950s my father made a business trip from our home in Connecticut to Florida and back. He decided to...
Pick ’em up & lay ’em down.
Anonymous, Seattle, WA. My five-month-old Ameri-Kenyan daughter and I were part of a group of 300 Americans with the National Parks Service who commemorated the...
I was colorblind. Now I see.
Suzi, Seattle, WA I am white and grew up surrounded by whiteness. I was oblivious to what it meant to be non-white; to the fact...
Running for the freedom in myself.
Bob Preston, Seattle, WA. On Location: Seattle Community Colleges I thought of this while being told about this project, immediately, and since it has helped...
White privilege was actual, palpable relief
Xacu Seattle, WA The country we came from views us as bad and wrong. We were conquered, killed, and hated. Laws were made against us,...
Breaking the stereotype black male nurse
Chris Porter Seattle, WA History and TV have provided many roles, mostly negative, for black males. Our society rarely sees black men in the role...
One white, one brown, same parents.
Adana, Seattle, WA. I have 2 children. My son looks just like his papa: dark, wavy hair and alabaster skin. My daughter looks like me:...
