Quit blaming me because I’m white
Chris Grimm Charlottesville, VA I grew up in the somewhat inner city of Alexandria, Virginia. I was not brought up to hate anyone. My parents...
Black but my grandmother is not
Bradley McIntyre Woodbridge, VA I was always the darkest kid in my mostly black school. I always saw myself only as black. Three years ago...
Try To See Through My Asian Eyes
Juliette A Clancy Culpepper, VA Since I am half Asian and my eyes are the only Asian thing about me, people think that I’m automatically...
Sometimes I feel bad about being Hispanic
Anonymous Culpepper, VA Me being Hispanic I feel like everybody thinks I’m just a normal “Mexican” who came to the U.S.A. Is not even close...
Michele, I don’t sound Black either.
Michael Steele Fredericksburg, VA Unfortunately, too often I find a stunned look on people’s faces with whom I have only spoken on the phone. Some...
Here come the white people….Family!
Robbie Wolfe Chester, VA My mom and us, her children, were noticeably “lighter” than the rest of my family, which were very brown to dark-skinned...
Denial keeps these wounds from healing.
E. Martin Hampton Roads, VA So often people act as if slavery was some prehistoric event whose effects should have dissipated. In reality, 150 years...
Under society’s surface, outer skin matters.
Tracee H. Norfolk, VA It’s amazing how similar everyone is, while somehow they just can’t see eye-to-eye. As a white teacher I get called racist...
