Damn, did you see that White girl?
Lisa Jasinsk, Trinity University In 2007, I spent a year working at The Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY. One day on my way into the...
I am grace, power and inextinguishable
Ryan Brooke Taylor, New York City, NY. Collected from: WITNESS: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at The Brooklyn Museum My experience as a...
Human heart dissolves all artificial boundaries.
Robin Fisher, Boulder Creek, CA. I identify with people in marginalized demographics who have experienced victimization at the hands of the social majority since I...
Colour, power, difference, struggle, dignity, aesthetics
G. Arunima New Dehli, India I am visiting from India, and for many of us the civil rights movement, and the debates and politics of...
Diversifying. Dividing. Uniting. Power through solidarity.
Elon Race Card Project, Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
White, male privilege can transform lives.
Stacey Wicksall, Macedon, NY. Those who have traditionally been able to oppress others also are the same group able to lift others from oppression. The...
Being An African American Feels Powerful
Chelsea Delaney, Baltimore, MD. I have read different race cards that elaborated so much about the downsides of being my race, about being an African...
All power I see is white
Erin, St. Louis, MO. In my world today I associate power with people who are white. All my teachers and school leaders, white. My parents,...
This project gives racism more power
Brandon Aspen, CO The purpose of saying something racist is to invoke. By allowing people to express that they were hurt by these words gives...
White privilege is power. Listen. Act.
Stephen Wollentin Asheville, NC In the words of French philosopher Voltaire, ”with great power comes great responsibility.” I believe it is my responsibility, as one...
Equality, Freedom, White, Terror, Power, People
Samuel Boot Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Equality – There is no equality, the Caucasian are more powerful. Freedom – The African-Americans have no rights, they have no...
RACISM IS ABOUT MONEY AND POWER.
Lillian Muriel Birchette East Point, GA Racism and oppression are means to establish and maintain servant and ruling classes. Racial differences are easiest to discern...
All Power to the People!
Judy Gumbo Albert Berkeley, CA I learned this slogan directly from Kathleen & Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale & Emory Douglas. Eldridge used to call my...
Power, love, and a sound mind.
Ingrid Asplund Provo, UT This is from 2 Timothy and is a verse I always use as a resource during important or challenging moments of...
