The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Molly McNulty,
Newton, NH
I feel like a lot of people may think white girls or girls in general are the same just because we like similar things or follow certain trends. When in reality we are all different but just like a few similar things.
Sam Kadish,
Newton, MA.
Race is incredibly important to our history. It should be a sidebar in our future. America is the great melting pot; too many people have stopped being proud of that. Race should add color to life; it should add life to culture. America will eventually fail if race remains the first way we judge others. The reality we live in, need not be the reality for our grandchildren. Our personalities, charity, economic realities, heritage and abilities should define us, not the color of our skin. We should be able to joke about each other’s races without fearing deep insult. If brown people have taken over half the businesses on Main Street, it should be an observation: I’m sad that bob’s barbershop is gone but you are happy about the great burrito joint next door. It need not make any body nervous that more names on this years baseball cards are latino. We are changing; get over it.
Nicole Kaufmann,
Newton, NJ.
Why ignore race and try to say that color doesn’t matter when it should. Only when we acknowledge and embrace one another’s differences will we our own close-mindedness be broadened and enriched.
Lisa Wenger
Hampton Falls, NH
As a US History teacher, my 8th grade students were studying segregation and the Brown V. Board of Ed. ruling. I heard the NPR piece this morning and shared the Atlantic Monthly article on the resegregation of Central High in Tuskaloosa and the Dent family’s experiences from the 50’s until now. I showed my students the Propublica Race Card site, and then challenged my students to write their own six word essay reflecting on the topic of race, education, and our community. They found the challenge of expressing their feelings and experience in 6 words difficult. Asked where they thought Central High would be in another 10 years, they were pretty pessimistic.
Sophie Dover
Jamaica Plain, MA
Despite all the gains we have made as a country (which people love to harp on) – a harsh reality still exists for people of color and low income individuals across the nation. Schools and neighborhoods still remain separated by race and income. More money is funneled into schools serving better-off, white communities while lower income communities of color suffer with worse quality education and worse educational outcomes as a result. Let us re-examine our national rhetoric surrounding race, from – “well, Obama’s president, so anything’s possible!” to “Obama’s president, so why is this still so hard?”
Ingrid Monson
Newton, MA
I’m white but lived in a black neighborhood in Chicago for part of the 1990s. I tried to get a plumbing firm from a nearby white neighborhood to come and clear a sewer pipe blocked by a tree root. Everything was fine until I gave him the address of the house (in a black neighborhood). Sorry we don’t service that neighbohood, ma’am. Click. Prejudice sometimes means that they won’t even take your money.
Andrea M.
Newton, MA
I grew up not really ever thinking about my race until my college applications asked me to literally box myself into one race. I always thought I was “white” with my Irish last name, Swedish grandmother, and my other American family. I just also had a mother who took us to travel to South America to see far off family members. But I didn’t speak Spanish, and I grew up here, and I don’t eat rice and beans every day. So I don’t know, what am I really?
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