Jonathan Routon,
Riverside, CA.

Often times people are afraid to own up to past racism due to how they may be judged. I must confess that I have thrown hurtful and disgusting words in my youth and while I am far from proud of this period of my life I also fully own the fact that I did it. Even if you feel you should not be to blame because you were young, or others did it, these words have an immense amount of weight and emotion leveled behind them regardless of how trivially you toss them about.