Race and Identity
Race and Identity
Garwin DeBerry
“This is not right. But no one prepared us for that.”
Garwin DeBerry
“I had never been in a situation before where I was the only Black in the classroom.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
“I never told my mother. I felt like it was my burden at that age to carry.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
“The only reason you’re here is because the governor said we have to do this.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
“I thought that race was where people drove in a circle.”
Phylissa Mitchell
“If you don’t let go of that privilege, we are just going to be mired here.”
Phylissa Mitchell
“Didn’t I understand how nervous he felt being one of only two Black kids in the class?”
Julia Shields
“My experiences will be different from the white population.”
Vincent Kinney
“Officer, why is he Mr. Chauncey, and I’m Vincent?”
Vincent Kinney
“Adults put us through that, and none of us should have had to sacrifice.”
Vincent Kinney
“It’s the people out there meeting the challenge on a day-to-day basis that make the change.”
Vincent Kinney
Vincent Kinney
“My mother was from a very racist family.”
Steve Helvin
Kent Merritt
“I don’t know what could have been done better, but it should’ve been done better.”
Kent Merritt
David Sloan
James Bryant
“I got up, I went out in the hall, and I boo-hooed and cried, in the tenth grade.”
James Bryant
“There was just so much every day, it was just drama every day.”
James Bryant
“It was done completely wrong, I think.”
Jimmy Hollins
Lloyd Snook
“The neighborhood was like one big happy family.”
Veronica Jones
“We might have no meat on the thing, but it was okay.”
Veronica Jones
“This is something that we have to do as a Black race.”
Veronica Jones
Darlene Quarles Robinson
“I feel like we are regressing.”
Donald Byers
“I don’t feel that this was right. I want to support.”
Bernadette Whitsett Hammond
“Well, whenever you’re feared and hated any time you walk in somewhere, it starts to wear on you.”
Nathaniel Garland
“When we went to Lane, the nurturing part was not there.”