Memoirs: Racism 19 Articles

by Rebecca Bibbs

My jaw dropped. I'd been outed. The Sunday package on mixed-race people that appeared in the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot the summer of 1987 was a labor of love. The daughter of a Black man and a white woman, I'd hardl...read more

by Shaheen Darr

In my opinion racism is ingrained in some human beings. No matter how much this is denied there is always an element of it that will raise its ugly head at some point in time. Years ago I spent my youth in Africa. I wa...read more

by Robin Landry

"Racism may have been a problem in the past, but things are different now. We don't really need things like affirmative action' and diversity awareness training' because everything is ok now, right?" As an African-Amer...read more

by Tony Jones

The first time I heard the "n" word I was confused. I was during a class reading of "Tom Sawyer". Our 4th grade teacher took exception to the term and explained to the public school class that this word was considered of...read more

by Dee Romesburg

Race and Ethnicity Recently my husband and I watched a powerful documentary called "Traces of the Trade". Katrina Browne discovered that her ancestors were the largest slave trading family in the US. She invited a few r...read more

by Tana Maria Toth (TMT)

In the little group , what we call the green Tea party ,we discuss the problem of the human racists . Yes ,the nations had and have problem each other from the beginning of the creation. First in the Mythology have stories...read more

by Minh Phuong Nguyen

I was going home from college, taking the greyhound bus. As always, we had been waiting for a few hours and I felt twisted inside, wondering if there was enough room-perhaps I would have to wait for the next bus. It was ...read more

by Anita George

Shades of Brown Everything is so much easier when you are a child. Decision making takes virtually no effort. You do not have the weight of the world on your shoulders and you are able to fit everything and everyone ...read more

by Kelli Gaston

The distinction between discrimination and both prejudice and racism is simple. Discrimination is how people show prejudice and racism. Prejudice, to me, is simply having a preconceived notion of a person or a group peop...read more

by T.M. Starnes

I remember the first time I heard the word "Nigger" out of a 2nd grade child's mouth. I was a sophomore in high school and in Future Teachers of American. We went to our local grade school to be substitute teachers one d...read more

by Darian

My sister and I lived with our grandmother for most of our young years. We never thought about the color of a person's skin, We didn't know what racism was. Now isn't that strange? At a time when racism was everywh...read more

by Kirk Olivier

"Racism", could someone explain to me exactly what the word means? I grew up and still live in South Africa, yes, the country that turned heads all around the world with the word "apartheid". I guess this has the same mean...read more

by Sara Mcgrath

SIX Until the age of six years old, I didn't think of my skin as white. I had a box of crayons with each color labeled, so I knew that my skin was peach and my best friend Brooks's skin was brown, perhaps antique brass....read more

by Shawn Cox

You know in 2008 you would think that Racism would be a thing of the past. I believe that all races, ethnicities etc... are one in the same. I myself am a white middle-class American citizen. I find it appalling that in to...read more

by Ted Onulak

Summerthat was our magical time of possibility. During the year, you spent your life in routines, waking for school, sitting with the same desk mate, eating lunch at the same time every day and waiting for the dismissal b...read more

by Nellie Shani

My skin color did not really matter to me. I was living in my native country where the majority of people were the same color as me. I did not know that I was going to encounter this ugly animal up close! My line of busine...read more

by Denise Bowry

I will never forget when I had my daughter whose father is from Barbados. It was in the summer of 1989 just before the six weeks holidays. I used to take my 5 year old son to school every day and as I was going through t...read more

by Jean Gaither

What was the first colors of The American Flag. Red, White or ? What do you believe were the true colors of The American Flag? Red, White and Blue? Or Red, White and Black. I say Red, White and Black. Why? At the time ...read more

by June Haynes

Back in the 60's, families mostly drove across country. About age 8, I remember our family, my mother, baby sister, my mother's older sister and her daughter were driving to Texas from California to visit my mother's mothe...read more