An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida

Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957

Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII

Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945

The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888

A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936

Job Hunting In 1930’s

German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945

Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961

Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934

Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931

Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932

The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947

The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967

Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967

Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974

17 Struggles All Suburban Black Kids Know Too Well by Pedro Fequiere

Meeting that one friend’s parent that you didn’t know was racist

Being the prime suspect of whatever was stolen at a house party

Your parents encouraging you to make friends with the only other black kids in the neighborhood even though you have your own friends

Not understanding all black culture references because you didn’t have as many black friends to experience them with

People coming back from spring break and comparing their tan to your skin

Searching far and wide for a salon that can do your hair

And people freely touching and grabbing your hair

Being called an Oreo, because… you’re not reeaally black

People assuming you’re good at any and all sports

Everyone looking to you to explain and demonstrate new dance crazes

People dialing their slang up a couple notches when talking to you

Swimming in a neighbor’s pool and having everyone marvel at how your hair reacts to water

People assuming that you have a huge crush on the only other black person in school

That moment when you learn about slavery in class and you can feel everyone staring at you

Being way more cautious than your friends about typical suburban mischief

People saying “You sound white,” because you speak proper English

Kinda seems like a one sided conversation, doesn’t it? I’m tired of “conversations on race” whenever another innocent, unarmed black person is executed by the police. They’re as perfunctory as they are repetitive.

We need justice, not another hollow conversation that doesn’t change anything and does nothing to prevent the next shooting.