Mom taught me to love everyone
Robert McAlister, Lexington, SC. Grew up in segregated south in a single parent home. Always felt on the margins but later in life realized my...
I am a part of every body
Monica Mary Maul, Lakebay, WA I grew up in the central area of Seattle 1958 through the 1990’s. And my friends were of many skin...
Nice small town has race issues.
Sara Przybylski Stevens Point, WI People think this is a great place to live, work, and raise kids… and it is. Just under the surface,...
No blacks allowed in my hometown
Jack T Buss, Belfast, ME I grew up accepting the concept that black people could not live in my hometown. I realize now many of...
Voluntary Segregation Is The Only Answer
J. Conway, USA My grandparents were against segregation until my parents school was desegregated in the 1960’s and suddenly it became a tribal battleground. Black...
Inclusiveness can be scary. Segregation’s scarier.
Corinne R., Florence, AL. All the time I talk to people who are terrified by the “worst case scenarios” of reaching across racial, religious, and...
Your bar is down the street.
Ronald Zeigler, North Brunswick, NJ. I was stationed at Parris Island going to Personnel school. I was from New York and with my three New...
I am white but not Trumpy
Ronnie Savoie, Gonzales, LA I’m Cajun (Acadian diaspora settling in Louisiana) and have a tiny percentage of Micmac First Nations people from the 1600s. My...
Social construction to maintain white dominance
Jana Everett, Denver, CO Studying the creation of race as a concept in the 1500s and its use to justify slavery, colonialism, genocide of indigenous...
Everyone hates the mixed race child.
Alexeana Lopez, Saint Louis, MO. Segregation doesn’t always come from white people.
I became an activist and prisoner
Dan Kelly San Francisco, CA I was in a Brooklyn HS in the early 60s and the images coming from the south inspired me to...
Self segregation in classrooms baffles me!
Sandy Yarrington, Wayne State, St. Clair Shores, MI I am always amazed at how far we have come, but I am frustrated at how far...
The sky is not the limit
Barnstorming Elizabeth “Bessie” Colman was the first African American to get an international pilots license at a time when women were not supposed to -...
Africans; unite, mobilise, prosper and LEAVE!!
Mike Cruickshank, England. As an an Afro person, I feel that the dominant society (people who call themselves White) have subtle and blatant ways to...
Segregation smolders silently: progressive city divided.
Emily Mixon, Austin, TX. Photo Credit: Eric Fischer Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Segregation and inequity; the struggle continues
Dr. Deneese L. Jones, San Antonio, TX. Trinity University Race still matters! Even after sixty years past the Brown v. Board decision where the courts...
