Homecoming with best friend. You dating?
Jaden Miskowiec, Memphis, TN. I went to homecoming with my best friend, who happens to be black. One woman asked my mother if we were...
I am more than 3/5ths person
Lynell, Nashville, TN. “We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity,...
If you were black you’d know.
Frank K Norris, Knoxville, TN, I have a good fishing buddy friend. I’m white and he is black. One day I was driving on the...
Ignorance of history, convenient or willful?
Emily Green-Cain, Nashville, TN. I grew up in the city where James Lawson led teach-ins for non-violence that led to sit-ins throughout the Southeast. No...
Son, let me explain ‘busing’.
Joe Stainback IV, New Tazewell, TN. A quote from my mother … My positive spin on ‘race’ interactions gleaned from mandated busing in the early...
I wanna help but I’m scared.
Nichole Proctor, Harriman, TN Being white and living in the south can be scary. My husband and I carry white guilt. We know we’re privileged...
I don’t know my Native language.
Jessica Elaine Matz, LaVergne, TN. I look white and I was raised white, but when we were kids, we went to the occasional pow wow...
Racism is also prevalent in Canada
Emma Seawright, Knoxville, TN I am from Canada and the news covers USA news very often so during the summer when there were protests occurring...
Which side do you identify most with?
Gentry Hopkins, Nashville, TN Being biracial presently gives an interesting viewpoint on many social aspects. I often get the questions “are you more white or...
Come on, pick a side already.
Sophia, Chattanooga, TN Growing up biracial, I never knew where I fit in outside of my home. Two cultures, two religions, two completely different lifestyles....
Wait, so what are you exactly?
Ysabella Woods, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Sociology 101, Knoxville, TN
How Can I make a Change?
Carter Pittman, Maryville, TN The University of Tennessee of Knoxville, Sociology 110
Listen to others besides your own
Kaitlyn Marek, Knoxville, TN All too often, I hear my white friends and family members only promoting their own ideas about society and race amongst...
Blood. Sweat. Tears. Soil to Skyscraper.
Jason Williams, Nashville, TN. Take pride in this great nation, remember those who built it.
No Problems for Private School Kids
Alissa Hodges, Chattanooga, TN There is a common misconception in my city that white, middle class, private school kids have no problems. In actuality, there...
