The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Nancy Bachana,
Katonah, NY
As a white girl in the 70s and 80s South, older Black men stepped out of my way on downtown sidewalks. I didn’t understand that Jim Crow only ended in 1964, and they feared being killed because of me.
Alicia Wolff,
Petaluma, CA
As a child in the ‘80s, up north, with a deeply religious family, I was raised to believe God didn’t see color and neither should we. It has taken me decades to understand how that overly simplistic view denies the reality of how race functions in our society and allows white people to continue to ignore how race-related trauma is deeply embedded in our country’s history and culture.
Edward Schenkenfelder
Oak Forest, IL
I grew up in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s in Cicero, Illinois. Back then the city’s zero black American population was strictly enforced. I worked at the Bel-Air Drive In with a Black youth about 17 years old. He said “my six words” after being chased by a group of young Cicero natives. Today when I realize that I am painting someones actions with a colored brush I try to remember what that must have been like for those black Americans who had to interact with Cicero for one reason or another, and I raised my children differently, in a neighborhood that is definitely not the Cicero of my youth. .
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