Stopping myself from hating white people
Simone, Canada. I’m Asian-Canadian, and honestly, it’s kind of hard not to feel just plain alienated right now. It’s just gotten bad lately. The level...
White male trying to be accountable.
Skyler, Vancouver, WA Autistic, raised Islamic, and traveled the world. Still learning to be humble and understand the privilege I was born with, and will...

Half brown. Half white. From Vancouver.
Yasmin Pallan, Canada As a half Indian, half white person growing up in Vancouver and later Toronto, I was and still am tired of always...
My white advantage is an embarrassment
Russell Cupp, Vancouver, WA As an octogenarian thinking back about my years I am thoroughly embarrassed about the many advantages I had that I would...

No white Barbies for this one.
Samantha Williams, Pensacola, FL. My father is black and my mother is Filippino. I was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where the majority of...

2007: Smuggled out of Eldoret, Kenya
Vancouver, Submitted via Twitter: @JAY_MC In Kenya for humanitarian work right before the election. Things got hairy and I was stuffed in a secret part...
Many fingers needed to hold tomorrow
William Hood Vancouver, B.C., Canada A successful tomorrow requires humanity to be connected as brothers and sisters for our children and grandchildren to survive and...


Content of character, white male N/A
Greg S. Furman, Vancouver, WA. They will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Except white...
I welcome diversity and shun suffocation
Kacie Vancouver, WA I grew up in a very white area of the U.S. and still at 23 years old, I’ve had very few friends...
Illegal immigration: dislike behavior, not people.
Anthony Ricotta Vancouver, WA I have a really hard time with this issue because people seem to assume my objection to the behavior/action of illegal...
Quarter black, look asian, passe native.
Anne Guillory Thom Vancouver, WA Don’t feel comfortable in ethnically oriented gatherings, except in Louisiana.
White boy, black//brown majority school
Dan Euliss Vancouver, WA You get to feel the other side of the race card.