Biggest problem affecting quality public education
Denise Hills Tuscaloosa, AL I live in Tuscaloosa, AL. I’ve been involved with education, primarily at public schools, for years. This past election, I ran...
Ambiguously different from everyone else. Stereotypes.
Jessica Winfrey Portland, OR I am biracial and bicultural and was educated for the first 6 years in a very diverse school on an air...
Bigotry, Enlightenment, Experiencing, Acting, Agitating, Living
Isabelle Keefe Marrero Tuscaloosa, AL I am 76 years old, grew up in New Orleans in ingrown bigotry, discovered that black people had a last...
Freedom Fighters didn’t work for this!
Kerri Ash Tuscaloosa, AL When I think of the sacrifices of all of those who fought before me, I’m ashamed of how we (parents, the...
You Have To Be Carefully Taught
Leigh Slater Hagerstown, MD We are not born hating people who are different from ourselves. Like the song from South Pacific says, hatred is taught,...
News flash: you’re not really Mexican
Amanda Zamora Brooklyn, NY As the youngest in a large (seven children!) Mexican family, I was always jealous of my brothers and sisters for having...
There isn’t a box for Other
Traci Butler USA I’m a Caucasian mother of a beautiful, amazing little girl who happens to be of mixed heritage, because her father is from...
Can’t avoid racism in this country
Syeeda Tatum-Hensen Milwaukee, WI I applaud Ms Norris for starting this dialogue. it is long overdue.
I said human, they said white.
Ida W. USA In elementary school when they asked ‘race’ on forms I filled out ‘Human” because I am a member of the human race!...
I am sad it still matters.
Joni USA I had a really good friend who happened to be black; witnessed the pain and struggles; felt ashamed of the white race
Geraldine, thirteen years old, incredible courage
Sue Schiller, USA. Rather than integrate them, our city closed the public schools in September 1958. When they reopened in January 1959, Geraldine (I know...
Asian me: hated by Blacks. WHY?
Neil A. Sookdeo Baltimore, MD With six degrees, four from grad schools in the USA, I cannot compete fairly to teach African or Caribbean history...
