The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Jenn O,
Los Angeles, CA.
This is the dreadful question that I get almost all the time… I find myself always having to explain my background to people before they’re able to get past my appearance, and actually engage in an intellectual conversation.
David Thomas,
Pasadena, MD.
White Grandfather to two African American grandsons, what a world we have created for them. I loath the day they realize racism exists and have to explain why.
Gwendolyn Kelly,
Louisville, KY.
People of color spend too much time defending, justifying, explaining how they are or are not “like everyone else” and trying to fit in or making a show of not trying to fit in. Stop it! It’s exhausting, a waste of resources, and demoralizing. We are. We don’t need to explain our existence.
Charles C. Chatman,
Hanover Park, IL.
As a black man, I feel that when I enter a room, I must explain my reason for being there. When I go to work, I have to explain every decision I make. When I show interest in things that are obscure or not typical of the preconceived black male. . . I have to have a narrative or a story to explain why I like it. I feel as if I’m not allowed to just “be”.
Chelsea Delaney,
Baltimore, MD.
I have read different race cards that elaborated so much about the downsides of being my race, about being an African American and the disadvantages of it. I do believe that both sides need to be explained, but I want to focus more on the positive. Focus more on how liberating it is to be an African American woman in 2014 feels like. To me, it feels like power. There are so many people of color making major moves in our world today and it is beautiful. Us as people of color were built on learning how to survive, how to make it. In the process of learning how to get by, we have also gained power. We as people of color are unstoppable. We come together when we need to make change, we remember what our forefathers stood and died for, and we stand on the foundation of hope, faith and power. We are full of soul, culture and most of all power, and that’s what I love about my race. We are beautiful.
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