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Being white doesn’t automatically mean racist.

Tagged With: 1980's, automatically, Carstens Smith, Minneapolis, MN, Racist, white in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Carstens Smith
Minneapolis, MN

I quickly learned in the 80s, when my employer mandated attendance on race and diversity, to stay very, very quiet. [...]

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Enough to make you look pretty

Tagged With: Adrienne Zimiga, ancestry, culture, heritage, Indian, look, Minneapolis, MN, Native American, pretty in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Adrienne Zimiga
Minneapolis, MN

I was born and raised on the Pine Ridge reservation my first 12 years. Upon moving from Batesland, SD [...]

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He has a black doctor.

Tagged With: Black, black doctor, doctor, Greg Filice, hospital, MN, St. Paul in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Greg Filice
St. Paul, MN

I work in a hospital teaching hospital. In my 40 years working in healthcare, I have watched as the [...]

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Ex-military, don’t understand my country’s culture.

Tagged With: Alan Hill, country, culture, ex-military, military, Minneapolis, MN, veterans in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Alan Hill
Minneapolis, MN

Why don’t veterans speak of their experience? Because of the culture barriers to understanding. Military veterans don’t yet understand (as [...]

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Are you sure you’re not hispanic?

Tagged With: caucasian, Claudia Noronha Madrigal, Hispanic, living in the US, Mankato, MN, Xenophobia in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Claudia Noronha Madrigal
Mankato, MN

These words are one of my earliest memories of living in the U.S. I can’t remember for [...]

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I got all the white genes.

Tagged With: Cayla Olson, Duluth, French, genes, identity, MN, Ojibew, white in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Cayla Olson
Duluth, MN

I have always felt that I had to qualify my racial identity with those six words. I [...]

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Mexican Irish Girl: agnostic and dry

Tagged With: black irish, girl, hair, irish, Joan Socorro Sullivan, Mexican, Minneapolis, MN, stereotype in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Joan Socorro Sullivan
Minneapolis, MN

I’m a quarter Mexican and over half Irish, I don’t attend church and I don’t drink. [...]

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Dad’s black but stepmom is white!

Tagged With: dad, Mercedes Morgan, Minneapolis Community & Technical College, MN, stepmom, white in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Mercedes Morgan
Minneapolis Community & Technical College, MN

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Racecard is part of the problem.

Tagged With: Keegan Scouler, Minnetonka, MN, problem, Racecard in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Keegan Scouler
Minnetonka, MN

Making a big deal of it, positive or negative, is part of the problem.

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Easy to judge. Hard to be judged

Tagged With: Cecilia Crocker, hard, judge, Minneapolis Community & Technical College, MN in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Cecilia Crocker
Minneapolis Community & Technical College, MN

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Color is for eye. Not to differentiate

Tagged With: anonymous, Color, differentiate, eye, Minneapolis Community & Technical College, MN in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Anonymous,
Minneapolis Community & Technical College, MN

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Die hard when you try hard

Tagged With: die hard, hard, Minneapolis Community & Technical College, Mohamed Jamal, try in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Mohamed Jamal
Minneapolis Community & Technical College, MN

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Exposed? I’m a bad virus.

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Dennis Mickelson
Maple Grove, MN

Time You should go home.

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We never saw you as Asian.

Tagged With: Albertville, Asian, Lor Lee, Minneapolis, MN, saw in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Lor Lee
Albertville, MN

I grew up in Minneapolis, MN and when I moved out to a small rural school district many of my [...]

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Being white shouldn’t mean being clueless.

Tagged With: Andrew Butz, clueless, College, Minneapolis, MN, white in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Andrew Butz
Minneapolis, MN

I am white, and grew up not thinking or having to think much about race at all. Made a lot [...]

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What’s worse: Black Man/White Woman?

Tagged With: black man, hatred, KIRSTEN SCHOENLEBER, MN, professional, SAINT PAUL, white woman, worse in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

KIRSTEN SCHOENLEBER
SAINT PAUL, MN

As a professional woman, I wonder about the differences between racism and misogyny. I have gone to meetings held [...]

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Children don’t see in color. Stop

Tagged With: anonymous, children, Minneapolis, MN, See, see in color in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Anonymous
Minneapolis, MN

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Mom, their butts are black too!

Tagged With: Black, butts, children, Minneapolis, MN, mommy in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Anonymous
Minneapolis, MN
Submitted at the Guthrie Event- Minneapolis One Read

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Mommy – I need more brown people

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Ashley
Minneapolis, MN

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Only black in medical school 1998

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Anonymous
Minneapolis, MN
Submitted at the Guthrie Event, Minneapolis One Read

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Reach Up. Reach out. Reach Beyond

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Keith Davis
MN

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A piece of the American Pie

Tagged With: a piece, American, Jeraine Cuff, Minneapolis, MN, Northside (MPLS) Community Re-investment Coalition, pie in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Jeraine Cuff
Minneapolis, MN
Door knocking captain for Northside (MPLS) Community Re-investment Coalition

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“You’re 16, Mexican and not pregnant?”

Tagged With: 16, Elise Baumann, Mexican, Minneapolis, MN, pregnant, stereotype in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Elise Baumann
Minneapolis, MN

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Take away skin bag, spirit lives!

Tagged With: African American, Aku Kadogo, Australia, bi-racial, Detroit, mixed, skin, skin bag, South Korea, teacher in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Aku Kadogo, teacher
South Korea

I am an African American woman from Detroit, MI. I have lived in Australia since 1978. My daughter [...]

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I see myself in the other.

Tagged With: MN, myself, other, See, St. Paul, Talk of a Nation in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Deb K
St. Paul, MN
Submitted via NPR’S Talk of the Nation

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Wish my mother wasn’t a bigot

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Anonymous in Minnesota
MN

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ROOTLESS adopted child, NO nationality here!

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Lynn Zecca
MN

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Universal skin condition, sometimes painful

Tagged With: beige, Margie Nelson, MN, Morris, painful, skin, universal in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Margie Nelson
Morris, MN

All beige future – please ponder that If livers differed, but not skin Race to the finish line??
Extra [...]

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Understanding began with racially-mixed family.

Tagged With: Ann Arbor, Family, Marlene Ross, MI, mixed, racially-mixed, understanding, Understanding Race Project, University of Michigan in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Marlene Ross
Ann Arbor, MI
Understanding Race Project – University of Michigan

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Cant always get what you want.

Tagged With: can't, Fridley, get, MN, Stephanie Erickson, want in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Stephanie Erickson
Fridley, MN

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Don’t judge books by their covers.

Tagged With: book, covers, Fridley, judgement, MN, Nancy Hassan, stereotype in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Nancy Hassan
Fridley, MN

What you see isn’t always what you get according to stereotypes. Someone’s race, or ‘cover’ is just the outside, it [...]

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I’m not your Black token anymore.

Tagged With: Black, black token, Minneapolis, MN, token in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Erica R
Minneapolis, MN

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That’s funny, you don’t look Jewish.

Tagged With: Audrey Friedman, Jewish, look, Minneapolis, MN in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Audrey Friedman
Minneapolis, MN


Said to me many times during my life. I never knew how to reply to that statement.

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I’d rather be blue- no pink!

Tagged With: Black, blue, Linda Skoglund, Minneapolis, MN, Pink in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Linda Skoglund,
Minneapolis, MN

The above quote has to do with  a meeting my family had with Ed Solomon several years ago when my [...]

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I am more guilty of classism

Tagged With: classism, guilty, Minneapolis, MN in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Jessica
Minneapolis, MN

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We miss each other so much.

Tagged With: eachother, John Luetmer, miss, MN, Morris, we in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

John Luetmer
Morris, MN

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Bias helps me form true impression

Tagged With: anonymous, bias, helps, impression, MN, Morris, true, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Anonymous
Morris, MN

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Tie to bind or to blind?

Tagged With: bind, blind, MN, tie, Zumbrota in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Deb
Zumbrota, MN

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Is it color or culture

Tagged With: anonymous, Color, culture, MN, Morris, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Anonymous
Morris, MN

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Race, a backpack full of rocks

Tagged With: backpack, Eric Buchan, MN, Morris, Race, rocks, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Eric Buchan
Morris, MN

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Don’t look it, but I’m Indian

Tagged With: Indian, Jenna Ray, look, MN, Morris, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Jenna Ray
Morris, MN

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Race is like a “superbug”

Tagged With: bug, eradicated, MN, Morris, Race, Severine Bates, super bug, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Severine Bates
Morris, MN

Like a superbug, you think you have eradicated it and then it comes back.

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Needing to introduce myself as “adopted”

Tagged With: adopted, anonymous, introduce, Morris, myself, need, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Anonymous
Morris, MN

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Asian outside, white inside, still proud

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Pengxeu Thao
Morris, MN

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Easily suspended, can destroy their lives.

Tagged With: box cutter, destroy, graduation, Jill Shortreed, lives, Maplewood, MN, Native American, nephew, suspended, Trayvon Martin, zero tolerance in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Jill Shortreed
Maplewood, MN

My nephew is half Native American. He was kicked out of school for carrying a box cutter in his pocket [...]

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Grandmother looked Indian, why the mystery?

Tagged With: grandmother, Indian, MN, Morris, mystery, University of Minnesota, William Straub in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

William Straub
Morris, MN

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White girl don’t have it all

Tagged With: all, Courtney Rae, girl, have, MN, Morris, University of Minnesota, white in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Courtney Rae
Ortonville/Morris,  MN

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I am indigenous to the Americas

Tagged With: america, indigenous, Melissa Hernandez, MN, Morris, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

Melissa Hernandez
Morris, MN

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When fit stereotype. Fuel the fire.

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Anonymous
Rochester, MN

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Thumbsucking doesn’t turn your skin black!

Tagged With: 1930's, 1940's, Black, Minneapolis, MN, rural, SD, skin, South Dekota, thumb sucking in Minneapolis, MN, Race Card

-Anonymous,
Minneapolis, MN

Heard this in rural South Dakota, Late 1930′s early 40′s

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