Let’s abolish this concept now, please!
Jaime Phelps, Philomath, OR. This is a great idea. Thanks for your efforts.
Accused of racism because I’m white
Alice Peach, Yuma, AZ I was working in a public library trying to help my last customer of the day. I’m whiter than mayonnaise because...
The race card has been overplayed.
Stephen M. King, Parkville, MD Race baiters know there is a LOT of money to be made by keeping people at each other’s throats. The...
I’m tired of Black Lives Matter (BLM)!
Chris Rochambeau, Seattle, WA I am ethnically “mixed”, (born in New Orleans – Spanish Creole, Cajun French and Choctaw ), but appear Anglo. I am,...
Race card played by the oppressor
Ximena, USA The oppressor will always play the “race card” in order to keep certain groups of people subjugated. I resist.
Race isn’t more legitimate than sexuality.
David Chase, New York, NY. Apparently some people feel that “all oppression is not equal”. My experience as a gay white man unfortunately has not...
Wrong race, Wrong day for fun
Reginald Leroy Johnson, Randallstown, MD. On my birthday in June 1963 my mother decided to take me to Gwynn Oak Amusement Park as birthday gift…...
Ashamed and embarrassed to be black.
Nobody, Durham, NC. I would change my race to anything non-black if I could. I don’t think white people understand how limiting it is to...
Why Pull Out The Race Card?
James Laquindanum, Eastvale, CA. Don’t do it! Be intelligent and show some class. Happens quite often to me, especially when having random heated discussions about...
Learned your culture you not ours
Michael Greene, Philadelphia, PA. Kudos to Ms, Norris for bringing the kindling for when it comes to race there have been, are, and will be...
My race card is my racecar
Finn Hurtado, Eugene, OR. I am biracial, half Mexican and half white. I don’t have a racial group I identify with or feel proud to...
Unwillingly passing, race card isn’t mine.
April Faye Weathers, Los Angeles, CA. I’m light skinned and have always felt self-conscious about my skin tone. Growing up, my white mom taught my...
Please stop playing the race card
Peter Moorman, Syracuse, NY. The race card as in the term not the physical cards
The race card is the Joker
Karen Michel Pleasant Valley, NY Faceted, on the move, always changing the rules; what rules?
Race is not a card game.
J.C. Dade Houston, TX When I listened to the President of the United States speak of having being profiled because he was Black, I recalled...
ANYONE can play the ‘race card’
Carl Poole Norfolk, VA I am sick of seeing so many people (primarily white people) on the news, in books, and on social media sites...
“Race card” is no longer disrespectful.
Lisa Stiles Drummond Taylor, TX I have been listening to Michele Norris on NPR for years. I have been uplifted and encouraged by listening to...
