Brian Jones Maplewood, NJ I am often the only person of color in the room, and always have been. Except when I went to Howard U. Love the project – very powerful!!
Race: Too slow to the finish line
Judy Kravitz Scotch Plains, NJ Aspen Ideas Festival
Black enters restaurant, all look up.
Paul Alessi Cherry Hill, NJ My friend is a black man and he made this remark, that any time he enters a restaurant he feels like everyone is looking at him. I have noticed that he is right.
I’m here, because I can be.
Roosevelt J Abrams Jr. Orange, NJ
Why do Blacks use the N-word?
Darrell Penn Plainsboro, NJ
Actually, yes….I DO see color…
Kristy Straub Woodberry Heights, NJ It has ALWAYS annoyed me (since I can remember) when people say “I don’t see color” in an effort to demonstrate their acceptance/tolerance of those different from themselves…… but how offensive that actually is: “I refuse to acknowledge where you come from because our differences may cause tension so I […]
I bet they’re good at math.
Steve Titterton Lindenwold, NJ I’m white, and the father of two Asian children. Went into that thinking that race was irrelevant if I thought so, the social workers told me that I was wrong, and they were right. My card is about how I was made aware of what it means to make assumptions about […]
I’m not African American but still black.
Khemani G Orange, NJ It bothers me sometimes when I am filling something out and the race box says only African American when I am actually Afro-Caribbean. Although there is a difference between the two culturally I feel they are both united by the concept of blackness. Something that was once frowned upon but now […]
We all don’t come from Mexico
Ashley Castaneda Newark, NJ
Yes, we are mixed…
Krystal Scott Bayoone, NJ This is the answer to the question I am asked weekly. I was asked this question as a child often. However now that I am a mother of two girls one who has lighter skin then I and one who is darker we are asked all the time. In the grocery […]
Color is not equivalency for racism
Kathlyn Newark, NJ
My color does not define me!
Marion Jones NJ
I wish race mattered to NOBODY!
Mary Palmer Manahawkin, NJ I am a white woman married to a white man. We are the parents of two biological sons and one adopted bi-racial daughter, all of them grown.
Painful, from head to toe
BA Walker Paterson, NJ Life’s not easy
Faces of TRCP
Peabody Award
Recent Race Cards
In The News
SPOTLIGHT SCHOOL
