Hillbilly – the wrong kind of white.
TR Kelley, Swisshome, OR “White trash” is a hip cultural joke. “N*****” is “hate speech”. Why?
White trash married to black man
Tamera, Evans, GA. I still hear this comment from people even after being in a 32 year long loving marriage, having 3 children, and 5...
Yes I’m tobacco-pickin white trash
Tracy Hart, Washington, DC. Yes, I’m from a tobacco-pickin, Southern white trash family, and I mean that in the most endearing way. Some stereotypes my...
Double standards and mutual racial fragility
Lily, UK I don’t understand why people on all sides of the racial debate, despite wanting equality, suddenly splutter and get defensive when people criticize...
I’m white I’m not white trash
Madison, West Bloomfield, MI. I don’t have much to say. But I am a white girl, and I have been called white trash before, I...
Hillbilly White Trash? I’m Oxford educated.
C. B, WV. I grew up poor in a rural West Virginia. My race, the way I talk and where I’m from immediately make people...
White trash is white for n*****
Lucille R. Coleman Baltimore, MD I was born in 1927 in Indiana where we were white trash during the Great Depression. I know it is...
