Segregation in America One life with many names Growing up was not easy. There wasn’t anyone to nurture or love you or to make you feel special.
Racism in America The only black family in the neighborhood We were the outsiders. My mother was very concerned about how we were perceived.
Bahai Religion Praying for a meaningful life I believed that if anybody could love me it would probably be Jesus Christ.
Bahai Community Visiting the Baha’i House of Worship The first thing I saw was a white man hugging a black woman. And something was let loose inside me.
Bahai Community South and North Even though I avoided lunch with some white Baha’is, my family was my Baha'i community.
Racism in America Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Biafra, Vietnam, MLK and Kennedy again The difficulty for me was believing someone could hate someone else because of the color of their skin.
Racial Discrimination Like climbing Mount Everest, only harder I had to always fight against that feeling of I'm not good enough.
Racism in America Overqualified for Apartheid In Liberia my sons saw black men who were black men without the weight of of racism pulling them down.
Racial Identity Relying on Baha’u’llah I thought I would probably marry an African when I lived in Liberia. So I married a white man.
Racial Unity Culture shock – in America My mother-in-law held up her arms and said 'my daughter' and I just broke down in tears.
Racism in America Dark forces in America When someone does a terrible thing like harming black people, that's a spiritual sickness.
Racism in America The kind of man that can live in this world I thought, oh my God, I’m going to have a black child. There was so much fear that filled my heart.
Racial Unity Teaching a mixed-race child how to be black God loves laughter – and I had to laugh because my first two children were easy compared to this one.
