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Lisa Braxton-Reid sent this story in during a What Lisa Braxton-Reid sent this story in during a What’s Good’s Town Hall with Value Partnerships recently. Thanks @heydubois
 @me_dubois and team for starting a powerful conversation…

When Lisa moved into a new area her neighbors gave her the cold shoulder until…they saw her with her cute little Corgi. 

“Neighbors didn’t speak until our Corgi”
Lisa Braxton-Reid, South Easton, MA

#valuespartnership #OurHiddenConversations #artificialintelligence #momference #pinterest @thequeenscorgis #corgi #neighbors #goodneighbors #dogmom #dogdaddy

#TheRaceCardProject #love #race #belonging #quotes #6WordStories #RaceInAmerica #OurHiddenConversations #storytellingtherapy
The 6-word story in the graphic above was sent in The 6-word story in the graphic above was sent in by Virginia in Cambridge, MA…

A “simple” comment from a faculty member at work—We hear from a lot of people who hear this from friends and co-workers—and most of the time—it’s supposed to be a compliment…
Virginia’s experience below…

“Never think of you as Asian”
Virginia, Cambridge, MA

I’m half Filipina. And I’ve always thought of myself as half. But one day at a faculty meeting a colleague told me I “passed” as white. It’s bothered me ever since.

#aapi #aapihistorymonth #aapiheritagemonth #aapimonth #stopasianhate #asianamerican.
#celebrateaapi #coworkingoffice #workspace #business #coworkspace #entrepreneur #workplace #coworkingspaces #officespace #community #fillipino 

#TheRaceCardProject #love #race #belonging #quotes #6WordStories #RaceInAmerica #OurHiddenConversations #storytellingtherapy
This 6-word story in the graphic above was sent in This 6-word story in the graphic above was sent in by someone in Tomkins Cove, NY—right in time for Prom season…a reflection from a different Prom night experience…What was your Prom night like?

No Bi-racial Couples Allowed at Prom.

We didn’t go to the prom. Instead, we went to the movies and had to sit in the segregated balcony. Afterward, we ate our diner hamburgers on the back of my motorcycle because of the whispering and dirty looks. Finally, we went fishing. Fish didn’t seem to mind at all.🎣🍔🪩

#prom #TheRaceCardProject #love #race #belonging #quotes #6WordStories #RaceInAmerica #OurHiddenConversations #storytellingtherapy #biracial #couplegoals #datenight
The 6-word story in the graphic above was sent in The 6-word story in the graphic above was sent in by someone in Charlottesville, VA after seeing @michele__norris on the @colbertlateshow It’s a powerful story…check it out

“Bigots can change, cuz I did”
 
I was raised to be a bigot. But I grew past that and raised a son to be different than I was raised. I live in Charlottesville VA. When the white supremacists came to town I literally stood arm in arm with diverse neighbors, willing to fight to keep hate out of our town.

#TheRaceCardProject #love #race #belonging #quotes #6WordStories #RaceInAmerica #OurHiddenConversations #storytellingtherapy #MicheleNorris
This 6-word story from John Butterworth about his This 6-word story from John Butterworth about his mother who was a nurse in the 1950’s is a reminder of how much society has changed and how the stories we hear from our closest family members help share our own moral compass.  John’s mother did not not like what she saw and she used that as a teachable moment that he still remembers years later…

My mother has just graduated from nursing school in Boston and moved to Maryland in the mid ‘50’s with my dad, who was in the Army at the time. Mom found a job at a nearby city hospital in the maternity ward. Mom placed a beautiful newborn in the front row of the viewing window. The newborn viewing area was actually designated as whites -only and the baby front and center was an African American among the white newborns. Mom was completely caught off guard and never fully accepted either the reaction or the explanation provided as part of the subsequent request to move the baby, and told us the story more than once as a cautionary life lesson about right, wrong, equality, and the reality of the day. Imagine that this was the way lives began....

#mothersday  #love #happymothersday #mom #mother #family #motherhood #momlife #mothers #mama  #foundfamily #mamalove #nurse  #mybaby  #TheRaceCardProject #love #race #belonging #quotes #6WordStories #RaceInAmerica #OurHiddenConversations #storytellingtherapy #MicheleNorris
Our inbox at #TheRaceCardProject is full of family Our inbox at #TheRaceCardProject is full of family stories so naturally on Mother’s Day we decided to dip on into the archives and share a few 6-word stories that capture people’s memories of their mamas.  Isn’t it interesting that strangers see a family of different racial or ethnic backgrounds and feel like they must interrogate people they don’t know with questions about their blended families ??? 

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this or your own 6-word story …

I was terrified of traveling as a child because I hated people asking if I was adopted. Or the more frightening question: Is this woman really your mother, you can tell me the truth? I am half Chinese (and looked more Chinese than English as a child) with a red-haired, blue-eyed, English-descent mother and I was always afraid they were going to take me and my sister away from her. The same thing would happen with my Chinese father: Are these your children? Only since hitting my twenties have people started to say I look like either my mother or father, but even now when I look in the mirror I don’t see that I look like either of my parents. I think being told as a child I didn’t look like them or that I didn’t belong to them shaped how I see myself. I’m a halfsie, but don’t identify strongly either way; some days I look Chinese and some days I look English. I’ve never really fit either side.

#mothersday  #love #happymothersday #mom #mother #family #motherhood #momlife #mothers #mama #adopted  #foundfamily #mamalove #halfchinese #travelingalone #TheRaceCardProject #love #race #belonging #quotes #6WordStories #RaceInAmerica #OurHiddenConversations #storytellingtherapy #MicheleNorris
This 6-word story in the graphic above was sent i This 6-word story in the graphic above  was sent in by someone in  Australia after seeing Michele on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.  It’s a powerful story about remembrance and reinvention. 

“I miss eating Vindaloo with Dad.” -Australia 

My father’s family was originally from India, but his mother was Scottish/Danish. People tended to assume he was a white guy with a deep tan, so when he and I went out for curry, the restaurant employees were surprised when he ordered vindaloo. One of my happiest memories of him was the time when, after Dad’s vindaloo had been brought out, all the restaurant staff came out and stood in the kitchen doorway and watched him eat as though he was defusing a bomb in front of them...
But because Dad was the only member of his family to reconnect with his heritage, I can’t talk about that with his family. They’re all pretending to be white. So I’m here, telling a stranger that I miss my late father, who loved vindaloo. Head to the 🔗 in bio to submit your #6-WordStory. 🤎🖤🤍❤️🧡💛💚🩷💙💜 #TheRaceCardProject #love #race #belonging #quotes #6WordStories #RaceInAmerica #OurHiddenConversations #storytellingtherapy #australiagram #IndianCooking #VindalooLove #FamilyCooking #DadInTheKitchen #MissingHomeCooking #SpiceUpYourLife #HomemadeCurry #CookingWithLove #ComfortFood #IndianFlavors #YourMamasKitchen #MicheleNorris
“Love doesn’t have a singular color.” Head “Love doesn’t have a singular color.” 

Head to the 🔗 in bio to submit your #6WordStory. 🤎🖤🤍❤️🧡💛💚🩷💙💜

#TheRaceCardProject #love #race #quotes #6WordStories #RaceInAmerica #OurHiddenConversations
“People like me sit with you” 📝 Full story “People like me sit with you” 📝

Full story: “I remember the first time I was made aware of “race”. My family had just moved to a new town, and it was my first day of 3rd grade. I knew no one, so when lunch time came around, I just found the closest open seat at the lunch tables, sat down, nervously said “hi” to the strangers around me, and started eating. I realized that the little boy I’d sat next to was just staring at me. When I asked if something was wrong, he told me “people like you don’t sit with people like me.” 

“His tone wasn’t combative - it was of shock and disbelief. I had to ask him what he meant. He explained that he was black and that I was white. He thought I’d made a mistake sitting with him, because in that small town in central Georgia, white people avoided him or looked down on him. To this day, over 25 years later, I still think about Demarcus, and it still breaks my heart that anyone, especially a child, would ever feel that way. 

“So to anyone out there - I sit with people like you. And I hope that you would be willing to sit with me, too.”

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“Love is meant for all people.” 🌎🤎 “L “Love is meant for all people.” 🌎🤎

“Love should come before anything. Nobody deserves to be treated any less and feel that they aren’t good enough or different for something they have no control over and has no actual impact on the quality of the person.” 📝

Submitted by Austin Wagner

#TheRaceCardProject #OurHiddenConversations #race #raceinamerica #unity #love #people
“She loves me, her family can’t” 📝 Submi “She loves me, her family can’t” 📝

Submitted by Christian J. Collier - head to the 🔗 in bio to submit your #6WordStory. 

#TheRaceCardProject #OurHiddenConversations #race #raceinamerica #love #interracial #interraciallove #6wordstories #lovestory
“You came, you smiled, we loved”. 📝❤️ “You came, you smiled, we loved”. 📝❤️

- Submitted by Jennifer Blankenship

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In 2010, award-winning journalist Michele Norris started The Race Card Project, where she asked people around the world to send her a postcard, and, in just six words, share their thoughts, questions, experiences, and aspirations about identity and race. The result was astonishing. The responses were vulnerable, honest, and revealing. And she compiled many of the postcards into a new book called "Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity."

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