
I’m raising them on my own !
Deborah, Canisteo, NY Being from a super small town isn’t a bad thing unless you live in town !! If you get it you get...
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Deborah, Canisteo, NY Being from a super small town isn’t a bad thing unless you live in town !! If you get it you get...
Eduardo Meza, Albany, NY. I get it! I look like the typical thug you will find in disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout most of California. I know...
Josie H Australia I am a Catholic Indian. The middle school I went to was not Catholic, and when I graduated into high school (which...
Robert Goffeney, Pittsburgh, PA At first, I thought it would be difficult to come up with six words to encapsulate my experience of race as...
Christina Rains, Riverside, CA. French, Indian, Mexican, Dutch, but American? It is quite clear that you cannot judge individuals by their color. Race in reality...
Lynn Schilaty, Snohomish, WA. when attending a teacher parent conference my husband and I didn’t expect what we saw on the faces of teachers when...
Brittany Price, USA. Being raised in such a racist environment makes it hard to be an adult in a totally different mind set. As far...
Donald Honchell, Chicago, IL Bias is based on fear and jealousy. It seems best expressed to me in the film Mississippi Burning. There, the Gene...
Helen Zhang, Camarillo, CA. When I was in middle school, I noticed that my classmates tended to form “cliques” with people of the same ethnicity....
J. William (Bill) Batey, Burlington, NC This is a picture of my wife, white Granddaughter, black Grandson and my two bi-racial great grandchildren. I am...
Erin Seaton, West Newbury, MA. I have two great kids. They are smart and kind and thoughtful and sometimes they also fall apart. We are...
Vivian Li San Jose, CA I deeply appreciate my heritage as a Chinese-American. It has taught me about a complex culture, thousands-of-years-old ideology, and a...
Malikah Black, Urbana, IL. Based on stereotypes and neither are my sisters. The media instantly judge African American Women on their many failures, but what...
Lexie Cagle, Wichita, KS What you see on the outside isn’t always what it is on the inside, how do you really know a person...