The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Vasvi Babu,
Scottsdale, AZ.
Romindian: 50% East Indian, 50% Romanian. Married 21 years at a time when few Indian women married outside their own. Boys know who they are because my husband and I know who we are and what we stand for.
Ed Houlemarde,
Duarte, CA.
I am what is considered a Creole – depending on wher I am I can be lumped into that areas primary race. In school I did not belong to a “race” Because my skin is olive I had mostly minority friends or friends of color. Teaches and later co-workers thought I was Mexican, Black, East Indian, Jamaican, Spanish and my favorite Italian.Even today people will ask what nationality I am and when I say mixed – they assume one of my parents is black. When I say my parents are from New Orleans they say -Oh.
Sherrill Dawn Koopot
Phoenix, AZ
…Worried how your baby will look?
41 years ago I married an East Indian Doctor; He was handsome, smart, kind and everything a woman could want. Both of those comments above were made to me, with all seriousness and , I think, with absolute ignorance as to how they sounded. I was 8 months pregnant when I got the “worried how your baby will look?” question. This was 1973! I was shocked at the insensitivity and that our nation had not yet moved passed such stupidity! I am LONG time NPR supporter-KJZZ!
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