Everyone deserves toleration, every single person
Kyla J.,
Scotts Valley, CA.
Everyone deserves to be tolerated, no matter your skin color, language, or family.
Don’t ask me why I’m single
Christian Hunter,
Shreveport, LA.
A lot of guys at school try to ask me out and they don’t understand why I say no. Is it such a crime to want to focus on school first? It’s hard for a person my color to succeed and I’m just trying to beat the statistic. So excuse me if you are offended by my no. You just want to distract me from my goals and waste my time and time is something I don’t have.
Just one never happened friendship story
Julie B.,
Itasca, IL.
This story started on social network, I followed one blogger I have mutual friend with. She is black woman in her 30th, single. I was reading her timeline and it was pretty interesting meaning her style and subjects she chooses. We started exchanging comments and “likes” and everything was fine, I felt like she likes talking to me and we have thing in common until, I can’t even tell what happened, but after I sent her a friend request she blocked me completely… I read through our conversation and I could not find even one message that can give me an idea why it happened. I am white, I am 40. I have a kid and I am single. Her profile public, so all friends and family can read it. I have a feeling that because I came too close like becoming friends she decided she doesn’t need it or she was advised do not do that or I got really weird feeling that she play me from beginning just to be able to dump at the end… I don’t know why I think this way but seems like no other explanation. She has a video about people negativity, racism and many other post about social problems however we never touched that subject. Now I can only guess what went wrong. I am disappointed and surprised that people do such a childish things. I see only one reason – I am white and she hates me in general.
White is not a single race
Slaton Anthony
Mount Vernon, IA
My last ancestor came to America before 1800 all from England, France and Germany. My ancestors fought and died in almost every American war, I was raised in the Cookson Hills of rural Oklahoma and believed that I was part of the American white culture. While attending college in Oklahoma, I realized I was not white, but white trash. I worked hard and after graduating law school, I was no longer white trash after I had changed my most discriminatory feature, my accent. Eventually leaving Oklahoma for Kansas City and Iowa, I realized I was again no longer white but was “southern hillbilly.” This process along with coming out as a gay man had taught me that “white” is not a single race or culture and discrimination occurs constantly within people and the decision is to become a victim of such discrimination and resent it or to fight against it and find power in that fight. This feeling of discrimination or always being the “outsider” as fueled my lift.
Raised by a village of color
Karen G
Augusta, GA
I was raised in the south by my single, widowed mother and a handful of Christian women of both colors. I learned about compassion, empathy, justice and God, at their knees. Later in life I learned prejudice while living in another country, because I was white. And I know that prejudice is still alive and kicking in the south, since the birth of my interracial grandchildren. A “maid” once told me that trash comes in all colors, “just look in the trash can”, and no one who judges another simply because of the color of their skin or eyes or hair should call themselves “Christian”. Her words have held true, and people have demonstrated repeatedly that it all depends on your upbringing.
