It’s worse than you probably think
Amelia Ketzle, Carbondale, IL. I was at a Halloween party no more than two years ago, hosted by a girl I had lost touch with...
Adopted daughter learns what “Yellow” means
Bonnie Jerome-D’Emilia, Haddonfield, NJ. These are my three children. We had never discussed the derogatory use of the word yellow to connote Asian, until we...
Held against your will?
Judy Vasquez, Murrieta, CA. I am a caucasion female, brown hair with brown eyes and my husband is proudly Hispanic/Mexican. We were pulled over at...
Always presumed mixed. Shocked genetically white.
Jeni Bate, Salton City, CA I have frizzy hair. I grew up in an all** white town and the only other people with hair like...
So shocked that I am literate
Jewell Chicago, Il Someone asked me how I knew what endorphins are…my response was; I read books and graduated from college too. Someone else stated...
Nickname Joe real name is Jose
Jose, Sanger, CA. My name is Jose im 17 years old as a child growing up in school I was called by Joe by my...
They’re Shocked When I Speak Spanish
T.W., Baltimore, MD. I am White, non-Hispanic, but I go to Mexico on a regular basis so I have worked really hard to speak decent...
Angry, confused, shocked, disoriented,worried, and aware
Steven O’Neal, Dallas, TX. Discrimination is still happening today and it will never stop
Shocked Jews like me owned slaves
Richard Stein San Juan Capistrano, CA Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician, lawyer, and slaveholder who...
Shocked! Separate restrooms in Georgia airport.
Nancy B. Riley Scottsdale, AZ I was 15 and on my way to a cousin’s wedding in North Carolina. On a stop-over in Augusta, Georgia...
Zimmerman’s acquittal is now his hoody.
Cindi Lagoudakis Petersburg, AK I’m still shocked by this verdict. And it’s sad and ironic that George Zimmerman, in playing judge and jury, has sentenced...
