Unlike Color, I (Can) Hide Being Gay
Hollie Watson, Murfreesboro, TN Technically seven words, but oh well. The only way I can relate to racism is through the hate I get by...
Best of Both Worlds? Or Neither?
Cameron, Knoxville, TN My viewpoint comes from living in America (especially during this time of social and political unrest) as a mixed-race individual. I have...
Wear your hair naturally.
Morgan Henry, Knoxville, TN I hate hearing my friends of other races struggle with wearing their hair according to their culture due to others’ biases...
“They should not be doing that.”
Claire, TN, My Big Mama said the above statement to my father. I was hanging out with two of my friends, one a white female...
Use my white voice for change.
Lauren Baker, Collierville, TN I used to stay quiet because of shame at what my whiteness means to people of color. I realize that I...
My race doesn’t affect God’s Grace
Percy Rolleston, Race In American Art, Chattanooga, TN There is nothing that will hold back God’s love and grace from you or me. Not our...
Can someone help me find my privilege?
Steven W Grudzinski, Clarksville, TN I was born white (not my choice, none of us get to pick our parents). I lived poor, on welfare,...
Dark skin woman; I love me
Sylvia, Memphis, TN. Thank you for this outlet. Letting people share their experiences, personal opinion & self worth, and/or reflecting on others in a limited...
I’ve freed myself from being “N*****”
Lamar Johnson, Knoxville, TN. I used to get so upset when someone used N***** to describe me. I then realized that I got upset because...
All of the bosses are white.
Josh Garcia, Nashville, TN. Attempts to recruit and retain diversity in corporate America do not seem to have changed the demographics I observe in the...
She’s White in a Black body….
Cooper Shell, Jackson, TN. She’s White in a Black Body….. That is what has ALWAYS been said to describe me—since I was at least 12...
My Mexicanness doesn’t tell my narrative
Arely Herrera, Memphis, TN One of my professors of the “(De)constructing Race in America” course I am currently taken has embedded the importance of having...
I am not a gray area
Jacqueline Jade Milan Chattanooga, TN I am black and I am white. I am mixed race. I want a category(name) for that.
Time to STOP shaming WHITE PRIDE!
Rikki, Gallatin, TN. I’m SERIOUSLY really sick of every other ethnic group in the country being able to stand up and say I’m proud to...
