justify Archives - The Race Card Project

I will never really ‘get it’.

Celia Beasley, Seattle, WA. Being an upper-middle class white woman, I know I will never truly understand what it feels like to be a person...

They won’t listen, they won’t believe

3 years ago3 years ago

Merritt Campbell Burton, Lewiston, ID I considered myself color-blind until I learned that wasn’t helping. I was one of those hippy-dippy people who would say...

The Human Race; The Forgotten Race.

3 years ago3 years ago

Elyzabeth Inez Smith, Granbury, TX. No matter what history has come to discover. No matter what the future has to uncover. No matter what excuses...

You’re the blue-eyed guest of honor

3 years ago3 years ago

Haley Cantin, Sanger, CA. I am white american female and I always get “because of your eyes”. When someone compliments me and says I’m pretty...

Illusion of difference that justifies injustice

4 years ago3 years ago

Phyllis Gabare, Kansas City, MO. Race and Ethnic teacher gave his students this project. thank you I enjoyed doing it . –

I’m an Eastern European Ashkenazic Jew

4 years ago4 years ago

Anonymous, Philadelphia, PA . For a long time, I have known that the concept of “race” is a false way to identify or classify human...

White people continually justify minority deaths.

5 years ago5 years ago

Jana Ditton , Submitted via Twitter: @janaditton. @totn @michele_norris

Please stop trying to justify racism.

6 years ago6 years ago

Harper Grey, Philadelphia, PA I see too many white people saying being white makes them a scapegoat, and complaining that everyone calls them racist “just...