Jasper? That is a white name.
Jasper Little, Chesapeake, VA. A lot of people are also very surprised the way I sound, they say I sound white.
I live in two confliting worlds
Hisham Jabim, Reston, VA. I am a Muslim borne and raised in Palestine. I am married to an American woman name Rebekah and we have...
Must we forget our Confederate ancestors?
Jesse Dukes, Charlottesville, VA. This question was on my mind recently, when I wrote an article for Virginia Quarterly Review about Confederate reenactors at the...
You’re scared, so I’ll act different
Anonymous, Mechanicsburg, VA. It is hard not to be myself to please someone else who does not really care about me at all. I hate...
There’s more to me than color.
Christina Veland, Virginia Beach, VA Throughout my entire life, I have heard the phrase “well, of course you’re good at that. You’re Asian!” But there...
I don’t see color
Patty Hall, Alexandria, VA. I have a precious bi-racial blessing; My Grandson. He doesn’t see color either, but sadly he knows other people do. There’s...
I’m blond, not your racist cohort
Kara Cox, Charlottesville, VA. I constantly get people making racist comments about others to me. They see blond hair and blue eyes and assume I...
Can’t we all just get along?
Anonymous, Concord, VA. Not my words, but Rodney King’s. Did we not get that message?
Image, Color, Race wont deifine us
Ehsanullah, Ashburn, VA. Family of four From Afghanistan Love Basketball
Why Does My Race Cause Fear
Steven, Aldie, VA. I feel that because of my skin color, my race, and all of the characterizations that have been made about both, there...
I am proud to be white
Staci, VA. I have seen the term “white privilege” used a lot recently as though it were an actual epidemic. What infuriates me about this...
Racism now denies that Racism exists.
Kristina Weems, Virginia Beach, VA. In order to implement any real change, we must take off our blinders and cure our cultures ignorance. Love needs...
“Waiting on the World to Change”
Hannah, Norfolk, VA. I chose this quote from a popular John Mayer song because it so relevant to where we still are today. This song,...
Everybody turns white when shot at
Bettie Wilkins, Roanoke, VA. I was born in 1940 and my parents were sharecroppers. My father was drafted in 1942 and came home in 1944...
Able bodied Financially Successful Minority Male
AJ, Falls Church, VA. I am a white American female with multiple disabilities. I realize that generally speaking, my whiteness and U.S. citizenship is a...
