Speech presented by Jeff Hitchcock, Director of the Center for the Study of White American Culture, at the Multiracial Solidarity March in Washington, D.C. on July 20, 1996. Today I'd like to talk about two things very important to me. The first one is home, and the second one is work. I know these things are important to many of us. So I'd like to share a little about what they mean to me as a member of the interracial community.
Home is more than a physical location.
It is a way of feeling and a way of being. Home means belonging in some fundamental way so that when the day is over, the work is done, you return to a place that is true to your being, a place that is true to your inner values, a place where it is safe to be you. My home is here, in the interracial community. I don't know how I came here, but here I am. I am European American.