What ever happened to midnight basketball?
TRCP Team, NYC. Question prompted by this story on NPR’s morning edition by Carrie Johnson. Photo Credit: %20photo%20winners%20page%20USE.htm
Our Blood is red we are one
Poloko, South Africa. We need to come together and fight crime not one another. This is no longer our world, we will die and leave...
Successful, Black, Gay, a family’s shame…
Karim Ali, Columbus, OH. I suppose I have been pondering my Race Card (TM) entry for a few months. When I read the comments of...
I will burn the house down.
Eric Chesapeake Beach, MD 1974, I was 14 years old; my dad was in the Army, we were moving to Ohio from Weaver, Alabama. The...
Born a crime ; Black and alive.
Bankole, West Chester, PA. Why? Why do you hate me? Why is my existence considered a pestilence in your eyes? Why do you kill me?...
Nobody seems to speak Swedish anymore
Lars Engström, Sverige. In the US people share the same language, religion, and culture. So why this race-awareness, to use a less incendiary label? In...
Don’t ask me why I’m single
Christian Hunter, Shreveport, LA. A lot of guys at school try to ask me out and they don’t understand why I say no. Is it...
Code-switching: an asset, not a crime.
Molly Wanless Chapel Hill, NC To develop and maintain respect in my middle school English classroom, I teach that there are many “right ways” to...
What is, uhmm, race is uhmm…
Mahlon Gumbs, Atlanta, GA. What is uhmm… Race is uhmm… The thin line that Blinds us, Confines us, Keeps us at home base. If we...
I thought you were a “hoodrat”
Cierra Garza, Parlier, CA. When I first moved to my new high school 15 minutes away from my hometown, I had no friends. I am...
Aren’t you worried about getting robbed?
Chase Linn, Wayne State, Detroit, MI I am a college student at Wayne State University in Detroit. I live in a great neighborhood and feel...
ALL colors should obey the laws.
Donna Corrigan, Bloomingdale, IL. People would not be so afraid of the changes happening with racial imbalance in our country if laws weren’t being broken,...
Let Me Guess, They Were Black?
Taylor Jackson, Tuscaloosa, AL. The race card might come off as confusing since I am a white man and my race card has a different...
Not Racist, Not Privileged, Just White.
Francis Skony, Chicago, IL. Being an almost 40 year old man from Chicago, I’ve always grown up with a melting pot of friends, acquaintances, co-workers....
Mugged…Most assume black mugger…wrong
Lynne Moffitt, Virginia Beach, VA. When I was living in Louisville, I came home from work and was mugged when I got out of my...
Jew that doesn’t blame Nazi descendants.
Happy Camper, Fullerton, CA. I don’t punish people for others’ crimes.
I will not apologize for slavery.
Felix, USA. I never owned a slave nor have I ever condoned slavery. My skin color does not make me guilty of any crime.
