Teaching My Children About Racism – Disturbing!
Octavia, Louisville, KY. In 2014, our 11 year old son would play outside everyday with the neighborhood little boys. Our son was told by the...
White mom contributes to racial diversity
Cindy Etter, Seattle, WA Thirty-three years ago I gave birth to a Chinese son. He has truly lived the life of a millennial, comfortable in...
No color barriers luckiest son ever
Dustin Marek, San Jose, CA. I was always afraid of never being accepted, since most of my very Caucasian family is scattered throughout the U.S....
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...
I’m his mother, not the nanny.
Toya Dragseth, Saint Paul, MN. My youngest son is biracial. Has his Fathers genes, very light-skinned, brownish blonde hair and when he is with just...
Who lives here? You or him?
Beth Brawley, Columbia, SC. My son is mixed race and when he was young a neighbor had a cousin over. They wanted to shoot a...
Just call me a human being
Rocio Tapia, Forest Park, GA. Being from Mexico, I do not have any sense of race. I know what I am and do not identify...
My Son’s Blackness shouldn’t Disable him
Monika L. Brooks Oakland, CA My Son still has to be given the talk about how he has to ignore the people that think he...
Beautiful kids, did you adopt them
Amy Hueitt, Gastonia, NC. I am a single mother of two children, one who is 8 with Autism, ADHD, and developmental delays. My daughter is...
My infant doesn’t need to tan
Tanisha Rueter, Gladstone, MO. It makes me sad when people tell me my son is “too white”. No, he is perfect, just like everyone else...
Son can’t speak. May be shot.
Lynnisha Grigsby, Minneapolis, MN. My son has a rare form of Down syndrome. Mosaic Translocation Down syndrome. He wasn’t diagnosed until he was 2 because...
“WHERE did you get that baby?”
Margot Rideaux-Crenshaw, Minneapolis, MN. The most frequent question addressed to me as a young mother in 1977 with my infant son.
Son, indignant: I have the right to be!
Joann MO Submitted via NPR’s Talk of the Nation My six words are actually two, six word conversations between a black father and son about...
