Greenbelt Archives - The Race Card Project

Vietnamese is difficult, love is stronger

October 10, 2023October 10, 2023 Greenbelt, love, MD, National Science Foundation, stronger, Tho Nguyen, Tri-Cities, Vietnamese

Tho Nguyen,
Greenbelt, MD.

Tho is from Vietnam and grew up in Tacoma
Amanda is from Oroville, grew up in the Tri-Cities
Tho and Amanda met at the Barnes and Noble in the U-Village while Tho was writing his dissertation
Tho and Amanda lived in Vietnam for 4 years since 2008
Amanda learned Vietnamese. Tho’s parents is pleased. Tho and Amanda married in 2012.
Tho and Amanda now live in Greenbelt, MD where Amanda is pursuing a PhD in Public Health at Johns Hopkins and Tho is an Fellow at the National Science Foundation.

Trending new minority to hate: whites

November 23, 2020 Bev Parisi, Greenbelt, guilty, Jewish, MD, racial slur, woke, WOP

Bev Parisi,
Greenbelt, MD

My mother’s family was told “get out Wop,” because they’re Italian. As I grew up I was called a “Christ-killer” and people carved swastikas into my school desks because I’m Jewish. Now my daughter will be called “ugly” “fragile” and “guilty” because she is “white.” In most places I’ve lived, white people have been a minority population (44% in Chantilly VA, 27% in Baltimore MD, 13% in PG County MD). “Woke” people don’t hate whites because they’re the privileged majority; they hate them because as of this generation, they’re the newest minority for people to hate.

Three Strikes- Black, Deaf, and Female

March 19, 2019January 18, 2022 Black, brutal ignorance, colorblind, deaf, female, Greenbelt, human being, La Toya Plummer, MD, skin, strength, three strikes

La Toya Plummer,
Greenbelt, MD.

Although I have lived with three strikes for more than twenty years, the color of my skin always has been and always will be fundamental to who I am. When you are colorblind, you do not see me. Overlooking a portion of me that is susceptible to the brutal ignorance on a daily basis takes away the strength I draw from it to carry on. Recognizing that aspect completes me as a human being.

Biracial??! Maybe. But, call me black.

December 10, 2013 adopted, bi-racial, Black, Greenbelt, MD, mixed, Tiffanie Luckett

Tiffanie Luckett
Greenbelt, MD

I was adopted at nine months of age. My parents are black. My biological parents were Caucasian and black. My parents expected the world to see me as black (or “other than white”), and raised me accordingly. I was raised to see myself as black, and I find it unsettling/strange/uncomfortable when someone calls me “biracial.” I see myself as a black woman, and have never identified as biracial, mixed race or anything other than black.

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