Turban, Assumptions, Fear, Perpetually Foreign, Resistance
Simran Jeet Singh, New York, NY. Trinity University My visible Sikh and South Asian identity have shaped my experiences with racial and cultural identities. Upon...
White, Technology, Life-Enhancement, Ancestors, Human-Rights
Jason Peter Thomas, USA. I did not realize it was a good thing to be proud of my white heritage until gay marriage was legalized...
I’m a Traitor to the Community
Samantha Foote, USA I live a conservative state and a conservative community. I teach at a local high school. Because I choose to discuss social...
I don’t… but I really do.
Brittany Price, USA. Being raised in such a racist environment makes it hard to be an adult in a totally different mind set. As far...
The only reason I was arrested.
Mignon Lott, Wayne State, Detroit, MI. My boyfriend and I were out on M59 heading to an event that he was catering when I was...
I’m not woke, but I’m learning.
Joe Boehman, Midlothian, VA University of Richmond I grew up not having to think about my privileges. I believed that I was a product of...
E Pluribus Unum is no longer
David Stoddard, USA Our current obsession with racial identity and group identity is not making our society better. Our commonality as Americian citizens has been...
We can always change the channel.
Audrey Lee Cho, USA. My parents immigrated to America in 1973, with my older brother Lee Wan Young and my sister, Lee Shin. I was...
Whites: reject guilt and self-hatred.
Joseph Miller, USA In the Twitter thread that brought me here, NatGeo published two pictures of white people. Both of the six-word captions for these...
Indian-American but live like white
Anonymous, USA. I speak no Hindi. Live in a big suburban house. Dress and eat like a yuppie white person. What makes me Indian?
Their house smells like anyone else’s
Steve Llanso, USA Pretty white and wholly ignorant, isn’t it? Here’s the back story: I grew up in the ’50s and 60s in northern New...
Germans Were in Internment Camps Too
Gina Barclay, USA. People are aware that Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps during WWII. What most do not know is that German Americans...
Let’s define worth from within instead
Naomi Crandall, USA I’ve grown up my whole life in an area most people know to be a “bubble”. Although I occasionally come in contact...
Biracial woman: strength, confidence, confusion, pain.
Melissa Flowers, Trinity University My mother is caucasian and my father is black. I have immense privilege in my life, and I feel that being...
