Pain is hard, friends are complicated
Jaclyn Flint, Elmira, NY I’ve been through a lot of pain, friends are complicated. You hang out with people for so many years, don’t know...
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Jaclyn Flint, Elmira, NY I’ve been through a lot of pain, friends are complicated. You hang out with people for so many years, don’t know...

Emily, Houston, TX. Many people complain about discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudices relating to race; and I am under no illusion that what they experience is...
Rev. Paul Nulton, Vernon, NJ. I grew up in a very racist family and church. My grandfather subscribed to magazines like “The Cross and The...
Hitch23, Canada. We can blame each other, paint everyone as racists and play this game indefinitely. Or we could find common ground and work towards...
Daisy Martinez, Holland, MI. The Confederate flag does not represent and never has represented racism. It’s a symbol of the southern heritage, representing freedom, states...
Peter Goodwin New York, NY We have separated ourselves into separate communities, sometimes with physical gates, often with mental or emotional gates, and so have...
Glenn Schwitter Simsbury, CT I live in CT, am socially more liberal and financially more conservative, and I do not know any white people who...
Nick Keim Ellicott City, MD My original thoughts when hearing about the race card project are the six words written above. Then I started to...
Garrick Kevin Peterson Exeter, CA Being a WASP, I am privy to what white people say about blacks, hispanics and other minorities. Often they think...
Amanda S. McPherson, KS The people in my life have know idea how motivated by prejudice they truly are; I often fear I don’t either.