My skin doesn’t make me better
Matthew Zimmerman Wausau, WI It’s awful that my skin color will grant me favoritism over another person. We are all human, and we should all...
Not everybody who’s brown is “Hispanic”.
Nicole Bodenstein Milwaukee, WI I’m allowed to have a German last name.
But..you don’t have slanted eyes
Judith Molthen Nelson Madison, WI Remarks made when I tell people I was raised in Thailand.
I’m afraid of most black men.
Maureen C. Kenosha, WI I work in a library with a lot of African American patrons, and I tense up when black men come in,...
Why is Obama black, not white?
Ed Morganroth, Jr. Plover, WI I have wondered since Mr. Obama broke onto the national scene why both he and the media have always characterized...
Well, you weren’t a slave so…
Brendon Milwaukee, WI I’ve heard this used in conversations and discussions around race and it is embarrassing. It completely discounts the persons position as if...
I saw the hate, it hurt
Christine Marriott River Falls, WI I lived in the south, born in 1956. I saw awful things as a little white girl from a racist...
A representation of society as a whole.
Ryan Owen Milwaukee, WI The problems we see in our schools are a result of the bigger problems that are acceptably in grained in our...
Less about me, more about race.
Kristen Milwaukee, WI As a white, middle-class lesbian, I often focus conversations regarding diversity around how I am a part of the subordinate identity. I...
My ancestor might have owned yours.
Kathy Miner Madison, WI My father’s mother’s family proudly claims an ancestor who signed the Declaration of Independence. At some point, as an adult, I...
Mixed Family all about love, always
Jeffery Sweet Kenosha, WI I am white and my wife is black. We have a son who is the most beautiful person in this world....
