Blacks say I’m White, WASPs don’t.
Thomas R Gerbasi, Lewiston, NY I’m Sicilian-American. Both sides of my family came to the USA in 1890s The KKK burned a cross on my...
Cultural appropriation. Bogus issue. Get real.
Steven List, Bristol, PA 75 year old WASP, originally from Cincinnati
I’m not proud of being a WASP.
Nancy MacLeod, Philo, CA. I have ancestors that came to America in 1630- among the 1st to take advantage of the indigenous people. What is...
Boat after the Mayflower; who cares?
Merrill Mason, Philadelphia, PA. Being descended from early WASP settlers made my mother feel important and entitled. But I believe that suffering and endurance are...
Lily White, but not an Intolerant
Leslie Troyer, Sammamish, WA. I was raised in a very WASP’ish environment. There was very little opportunity to interact with people of color or alternative...
Heart isn’t racist false accusations anger
Kevin Antonelli, Vienna, NJ. I remember the riots of the 1960’s yet at the time as a young child didn’t know the reason behind them...
WASP, Northener, no slaves, guilty?
Barbara Kuether, Dallas, TX. Discussions of race seem to extrapolate the South to the entire country. History is more complicated.
Pretty fly for a white guy
Thomas Paine, Santa Barbara, CA. I don’t begrudge being white because I know the advantages it has afforded me. It just sucks being associated with...
Ethnicity and race create beautiful diversity.
Valerie B. Williams, Jim Thorpe, PA. I was born a WASP but now have a muti-ethnic, multi-racial family. It’s our present and future. Diversity makes...
Hardship. Coffin-ships. Caucasian?! Don’t whitewash me.
Olivia Myers Denver, CO I get rather irritated by the way, whenever race is discussed, it’s assumed that I’m part of a classification because of...
Half Jewish. Half WASP. All tribal.
Andrea Jill Berman Rochester, NY Grew up working class Jewish in buffalo NY. a very ethnic city. No melting pot there. people kept their ethnic...
Racism Deniers Are The Worst Racists
Garrick Kevin Peterson Exeter, CA Being a WASP, I am privy to what white people say about blacks, hispanics and other minorities. Often they think...
When did your family come here?
Mitzi Zohar Outside USA I would reply that my mother’s mother was sixth generation Canadian. Growing up in a wealthy WASP enclave my questioners wouldn’t...
