She wishes for American eyes.
Rose McKenney Lakewood, WA I’m glad we’re finally acknowledging the number of multi-ethnic people in the US. Sadly people my age (50s) have been asked...
Norwegian with nappy hair doesn’t fit.
WilmaS, Seattle, WA. If I had a dollar for every time I was asked if my sons were adopted…It’s happened a lot. A complete stranger...
I Wear Black. Too Many Times.
Charlene Davenport, Clinton, WA I wear black…On Columbus Day to mourn…The genocide of Native American tribes by the European white man. I wear black…On February...
Once had dreadlocks. Now know better.
Susan Tsoglin Seattle, WA At the time, I was a white female college student in a mainly white university. Following the disaster that was the...
Not from here, nor from there.
Maria Sefchick, Seattle, WA My father is American, my mother Mexican. I was born in the US, went to live in Mexico when I was...
Hey Snow White, go back home
Sarah Cedar, Castle Rock, WA I grew up overseas where I was a white girl amid a sea of brown faces. I was the odd...
We thought you didn’t speak English.
Gabriela Denise Frank, Seattle, WA. Despite being a Detroit native who grew up in Arizona, I was mostly surrounded by white kids like me during...
I’m a twin: Who is better
David Harlin, Lower Columbia College, Kelso, WA I’m an identical twin. All my life people have been asking me and my brother, “who is better...
I’m Me, You’re You, Both Beautiful
Mary Engleman, Tacoma, WA I get told all the time I must be racist because of my heritage. But you don’t know my heritage. I...
Asians are still humans deserving love
Spike Fongchon, Spokane, WA Asians are just like other human beings with emotions just like others, what makes them different is skin color.
Trying to Navigate, Willing to Fight
Donna Scott, Seattle, WA. I’m passionate about social justice, but I sense the amount of space that I take up, as a white person. I...
Learn, feel, reflect, act, reflect. Repeat.
Mariela Barriga, Seattle, WA. Collected from The Race Card Project, On Location: Seattle Community Colleges
But Your Not Really Black
Damme Getachew, Seattle, WA. My parents are from Ethiopia and so I self-identify as Ethiopian. I’m frequently asked “Where are you from?” as if being...
Is my color who I am?
Lora-Ellen McKinney, Renton, WA. I am not my color, though I am in some ways what my color represents in America. I am, by this...
I’m brown, therefore I am invisible
Raúl Sánchez, Seattle, WA. Racial profiles are not AMERICAN, I am!
