More than what meets the eye
Brooke Evans, Auburn, GA Many people assume that because I’m white I have all of the opportunity or the upper hand compared to people of...
I ask myself what’s my part.
Patricia Merten, Atascocita, TX I am white and walk around oblivious to these issues. I live with a black man. I am frustrated with how...
White, privileged, and until Floyd, clueless
Marvin Moriarty, Belchertown, MA George Floyd’s death at the hands of police stuck me hard and made me start looking into race matters more thoroughly....
White privilege has broken my heart.
April Anderson, Sonora, CA When I read From the Editor in Junes’ Nat Geo (I’m a bit behind) I suddenly had this sentence pop into...
The invisible Arab until 9/12.
Jennie Clement Riverview, FL Thank you for doing this project. I noticed how my university applications changed in the wake of 9/11; how there was...
“Color Blind” thinking is white privilege
Alicia Wolff, Petaluma, CA As a child in the ‘80s, up north, with a deeply religious family, I was raised to believe God didn’t see...
Class can make white privilege invisible.
Kayla Bernier-Sontag, Brattleboro, VT. Smith College I’m a student at Smith College and my six word story is about my observations in social justice education–the...
My children can be badly behaved
Erin Seaton, West Newbury, MA. I have two great kids. They are smart and kind and thoughtful and sometimes they also fall apart. We are...
White, privellged, and aware of it.
Grant Peters, Orange, CA I come from a wealthy suburb of the Bay Area in CA. I grew up in a bubble of sorts that...
Cannot White Males Change Discrimination?
Richard Holmes, Durham, NC As racism and hate-crimes have proliferated and reversed so much progress in the last few years, I despise that the haters...
With great privilege comes great responsibility.
Faith Hendricks, Lexington, NC I have been born into a lot of privilege. I am healthy, relatively good looking white female. While my family has...
We all hurt in different ways.
Christine Farrell, Naches, WA. My dad was an Italian/Irishman who grew up in the Bronx and Harlem areas of New York City. He grew up...
America has “White-Privilege Withdrawal Syndrome”
Robert Alan Gustafson II, Butler, PA. Donald Trump is an enabler of the White-Privilege addiction. We need to elect someone who’ll transition us white folk...
Taught all wrong, now teaching others
Steve Jones, Durham, NC. I grew up in a segregated community and the concept that African-Americans (of course, not the word that was used) were...
I’m done with all the fights
Cara, UT. I have been having debates with my husband for a long time. We have spoken about how there is trained racism and acknowledge...
