Race is like a “superbug”

Severine Bates
Morris, MN

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

Keep the conversation going - comment and discuss with your thoughts

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Search
Faces of TRCP
SPOTLIGHT SCHOOL

"We are seventh graders at High Tech Middle Media Arts striving for change, so silence is not an option."
General Eric Holder, Modern day civil rights challenges
In The News

Yes I'm tobacco-pickin white trash

Who Will Us Be? with Anand Giridharadas, Eric Liu, Michele Norris, Monica Lozano & Paul Taylor

Michele Norris steps away from NPR to grow The Race Card Project.

Michele Norris & John Legend in Ferguson for, Shining a Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America.

In Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates at AtlanticLive New York Ideas 2015

Seeing New York’s Invisible Children, New York Ideas 2015

Ta-Nehisi Coates reads from his new book in conversation with Michele Norris at Lannan Foundation lecture in Santa Fe

NPR's Morning Edition features: 'My Name Is Jamaal ... I'm White'

Gwen's Take: Race, Morning Coffee & The Race Card Project

Michele Norris & Jenee Desmond Harris, How we talk about race: What word choice says about identity

The Grace of Silence makes, The Black Lives Matter reading list: Books to change the world

Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center Announces Spring 2015 Fellows

Norris brings The Race Card Project to Syracuse University

Ferguson Should Be More Than a Moment

Johns Hopkins University-A dialogue about diversity with Michele Norris

Norris speaks about race in America

The Race Card Project Partners with PBS for America After Ferguson

90.5 WESA- NPR Journalist Michele Norris Talks Race in America

Michele Norris is an Alchemist.

THE RACE CARD PROJECT COMES TO MSU

SPJ honors Norris for exceptional service to journalism

Is It Racist to Ask People Where They're From?

Invitation to a Hanging: Listen to the Interview

A Peabody for The Race Card Project

Pro-Publica: Segregation Now

The Race Card Project Teams up with ProPublica

Michele Norris leads learning opportunity

Norris sparks conversations on race relations

NPR journalist to deliver Blackburn lecture

Grand Rapids Community College Social Sciences Department sits down with Michele Norris.

Brooklyn Museum Joins The Race Card Project

NPR's Michele Norris Talks Race With Two Marietta Churches

40 years celebrating MLK at E Madison’s Mt. Zion

Race Card Project creates new type of conversation

Washtenaw students use The Race Card Project to confront bullying

Race card project spurs discussion

Cascade Engineering Race Card Project

Crossing the Racial Divide, Marietta, GA

Michele Norris' address at Sacramento State's Convocation
Peabody Award
Recent Race Cards

Power Struggle represented by skin tones.

Just call me a human being

Why are people like me scared?

Who are you? Papers? Go home!

I feel invisible, while standing out.

I love all races except Mexicans.

Bruh, not all Mexicans are illegal.

My role model was not black.

Mexican boy didn’t cross the border.

White, but can’t have Mexican family?

America provides opportunity for English accent

See me not my white skin

Χιος to Hughes...we’re all immigrants

I’m so white “ginger” from Alabama

My three boys will check other.

Half Kraut, half Jap: lotta KRAP.

You're Hispanic?, he said. Prove it!

Oooh..can I touch your hair?

Tom's best weapon was his smile Ray Bradbury.

Disappointed in myself and my country

Being Black and southern, educated engineer

Your fear is not my fault.

Drawl big words. They are surprised.

I never think of you as Asian.

Uniquely Made, The American Girl Today

Look in the EYE, smile, say HI!

Trust me, I'm not a stereotype.

Thin line between pride and chauvinism.

Being Hispanic is not a crime

I'm Asian. Don't assume I'm Chinese.

GIVE; Live; Laugh; Love-Everyone, always!

We're just not understanding each other

Proud to be white fourteen eightyeight

Border life safety, mass murder, lose.

Ignorance is the enemy of pride

Indian who was clueless about race

Speak Spanish Poorly? Then Don't Speak.

Being a mulatto woman is complicated.

Slavery's legacy broke my family pride.

WHITE: Not Allowed 2 Be Proud

My grandfather passed. Now what?

Father failed his brown bag test.

My great grandfather changed his name

Daughters of Muslim father are American.

Blame the Founding Fathers, not me

Never met Grandfather because Bull Did

11 years. Silence from my father.

White child calls black man Dad

Met your daughter now it matters

We lost our culture to survive.

My Japanese half, GI dad unknown.

Difficult Childhood With A Racist Father

Grandfather would not teach Mom Cherokee.

Who is your daughter's father?

Great Grandfather was a white slave.

White: Still apologizing for Fathers' sins

Dad, please tell Emily I'm adopted

I am dead to my father

“Halfbreed”. Grandpa died, not his beliefs.

Daddy invited negro family to dinner.

Daddy, which box do I check?

You speak Spanish??? You look white.

Don't judge book by its cover!

Ashamed of being mostly white. Sadly.

While there's no finishline: Americans All

We are of the world, together.

Blacks are receiving an Inferior education!

Is being mixed a bad thing

Difference between Phillando and me? Nothing.

Guide To Your Privilege Right

I'm sorry for past uninformed judgements.

Life-saving blood transfusions aren't race based

We all have same color of blood

United we stand, divided we fall.

Your bar is down the street.

It is exhausting living this way.

Who are your ancestors. Be honest.

Trying on racism felt so weird

Mexican parents, American kids, broken home.

You are those girls mother?! Really!?!

Just a stay-at-home mom.

The real prejudice today is poverty

I'm the sum of my parts

Half-white, half-middle-eastern. Where do I belong?

Love everyone, trust few, hurt nobody.

Listen First. Pray Next. Speak Last.

Being white means learning to listen

White's a color, not a race.

Interracial family: whites stare, blacks care.

Change On Counter Not In Hand
4.0 MW
Tags

African American American Ann Arbor anonymous Asian Black CA check the box CO Color culture Family FL GA Hispanic human identity IL love MA MD Mexican MI mixed MN MO NC NJ NPR NY OH OR PA Race racism Racist Seattle skin stereotype twitter TX USA VA WA white

Tweets by Michele Norris

Tweets by @michele_norris