Growing up biracial was very painful.
Jim Roberts Atoka, TN I’m half Caucasian and half Asian. Growing up in the rural South during the eighties was a painful and humiliating experience....
I am more than my color
Frank Benson Knoxville, TN I am native american from Alaska. I have been mistaken for hispanic, asian, hawaiian. it’s difficult not to see someones color,...
She took the time to talk…
Karen Bentwood, TN with me about what her name really was, as opposed to how the professor said it. She would say her name, the...
Gimme a break! Live YOUR Life!
Don Rackley Chattanooga, TN I know “minorities” who have succeeded as well as anyone on the planet. I also know white people who have failed...
Beautiful flecks on history’s butterfly wings.
James Wyatt Aiken Memphis, TN Sentient life is in its earliest stages, its infancy. As a sentient RACE, humanity has the joyous opportunity to witness...
Face it. We are all racist.
BC Memphis, TN I’m not saying racism is okay, but we need to stop trying to find the culprit and the victim. Everyone experiences being...
Oh racism? Blame the white people
Abby Memphis, TN Anything I say, African Americans can call racist, but anything they can I can’t say call racist. That’s causing racism.
Being white is not a crime.
Jason Ledbetter Livingston, TN I am tired of race baiters using terms like “white privilege” to divide us. We should be working to come together,...
Sorry, can’t translate your name into Chinese
Zhonghui Zhou Nashville, TN It doesn’t work that way. And no, I don’t answer to “konichiwa”, “anyeong”, or bows.
Being fearless in an interracial marriage.
Beverly Goetzman Nashville, TN I am black and my husband is white, which requires us to be fearless as we live out our chosen path.
RACE: branches of the same tree.
Judy Freudenthal Nashville, TN I derived my 6 words from a quote by Einstein: All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Blackness is your problem not mine
Victor Bradley Nashville, TN Often the discussion about racism is constructed as a problem with race. As if the problem isn’t with the majority’s racist...
Reverse discrimination against whites solves nothing
Chris Crawford Cleveland, TN It makes me sick to think little children are being brought up to hate. I watched a video on you-tube where...
White mom of bi-racial child forgotten.
Peggy Person Cleveland, TN I have always been so disappointed in “America”, for labeling bi-racial, or mixed race children as one race or the other....
