To My Grandson, I know you're only four, but I'm writing this now, so I won't be worrying about you when you get older. I want to tell you what I believe about people. First, I have to tell you...
"Why does your skin look like coffee?" I lay my skinny arm next to Lillian's. "Mine's like vanilla ice cream." "That's the way the good Lord made us, Missy." Lillian was my grandmother's maid and my nursemaid. In my mind...
I believe in equality for all. As a child growing up in an old southern white family in the south we were taught very conflicting things. At church we learned how all people were the same in the eyes of...
THIS I BELIEVE When I was born, people like me were just getting past being 'colored' and were beginning to self-identify as Negro. By the time I was a senior in high school we had begun to discover that 'black'...
I firmly believe in equality, that racism is a cancer in our society. It took a hard lesson at the age of 15 to shape this belief, but as painful as it was, I'm glad it happened. It helped me...
I believe that races should be looked at equally. I don't believe that, if you have white, wealthy parents, you are superior to others, for instance, a young musician in a band who has a black face. My children and...
I was born in 1950, part of the post World War II baby boom, raised to obey my parents, be truthful, recite the Pledge of Allegiance and when I gave my word of honor I was expected to keep it....
This I Believe "Mankind has never known such an orgy of greed and lust and murder. I want you, when you leave this room to start to see all this whenever you see this devil white man. Oh yes, he's...
I believe America is changing for the better and hope the changes will enable them to not repeat the mistakes of the past. It has been the trend of America to see everything that is wrong with another country while...
