I will never really ‘get it’.
Celia Beasley, Seattle, WA. Being an upper-middle class white woman, I know I will never truly understand what it feels like to be a person...
Multi-Racial means having a fluid Identity
Jesse Ponnambalam, Bolingbrook, IL. When I see most of the people I know; they all somewhat fit into a specific group. Some may identify as...
White guilt defines my life relentlessly.
Virginia Berthy I come from the combination of an old Alabama-Mississippi family and an old Virginia Family. I do not to my knowledge have an...
Dr. King’s photo behind (a) folding door.
Judy Seymour Madison, WI I grew up upper class white outside New Haven, CT. ‘Bill’ and ‘JB’ cleaned my parents’ house for ‘Mrs. Seymour’, my...
Terrified to Discuss Race Because I’m White
Hanne, Columbus Grove, OH. I grew up in a primarily white upper class community. Anyone in my town that are of a different ethnicity or...
The White Girl: curious, ignorant, ashamed
Rebeca Osborn Ambridge, PA I grew up in largely white, upper-middle-class suburbs, but as a social outcast for different reasons, somehow most of my best...
White privilege doesn’t work for Asians
Martin Smith Mobile, AL We are told that the wealth and functionality of Whites and the poverty and dysfunction of non-Whites comes from “White privilege.”...
He couldn’t get away with this
Tracy Audette Brooklyn Park, MN My awareness as our son’s bus driver (black male) watched me (upper-middle class white woman) chew out a police officer...
