So you must be Muslim? Arab?
Ahmed B. Middlebury, VT When your name is supposed to be an indicator of your ethnicity, religion, the language you speak, and everything else. And...
Pull up your pants young man!
Jennifer Roberts, Burlington, VT. White or black, with your super sized pants hanging off your skinny boxer baring a$$, your large stiff ball cap set...
You’re just like a normal couple.
Kathleen J Gagnon, New Haven, VT. We were at another couple’s house, for dinner. The meal was excruciatingly boring, but the man of the couple...
Always trying to confront white privilege
Jeanne Hover, South Royalton, VT. Having parented two African American children, I learned more than I wanted to about the privileges of skin color.
Struggle timeless despair pain powerless example
Noelle Vitt, Norwichvt, VT. I was ostracized in 1964 for dating a black student. I remember this era with such pain.
Many people groups, but one race
Melissa Beth Burlington, VT The more we focus on NOT being racist, the more we are teaching children of this society that they must see...
Being mixed means I am American.
Mattison South Hero, VT For most of my life, society wanted me to choose: White or Black. With President Obama in the White House, finally,...
Pulled Over. Charge? Driving While Black!
Arnie Gundersen Burlington, VT I am white, teaching in the “whitest” state in the Union. Yet Burlington has a huge immigrant and black community. While...
My dad’s prejudices live in me.
Ray Johnson, VT My father had some reasonably strong prejudices against some groups, specifically African Americans, Jews and the Japanese. We butted heads over the...
Because I’m white, I’m racist?
Jackson Macdonald Burlington, VT Although I am white i got to a school that is split almost evenly white and black. We are a very...
White, privileged student. Racist, snobby nerd.
Max Johnson Burlington, VT Whenever I try to do a project on race, I feel like I’m more likely to be seen as racist because...
