“I’d never get away with that!”
Susie Wilson, Lake Forest, CA This was said to me by my friend who’s Mexican after I told a funny story about getting away with...
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Susie Wilson, Lake Forest, CA This was said to me by my friend who’s Mexican after I told a funny story about getting away with...
Debanhi Garza, Fort Worth, TX I chose these six words to make a reflection on how being privileged can disconnect us from the experiences of...
Kayla Levenson, NY As I am going to be an elementary school teacher in the future, it is important to me that everyone in my...
Darcie S Wallace, West Islip, NY As someone studying to be an elementary school teacher, it is essential that every student in my future classroom...
Sam S. Arlington, VA I’m a young white teen growing up in a rich white area. For the past few years I’ve tried my hardest...
Kate Lee van Loveren, Ann Arbor, MI. I was born in New York, grew up in New York, and live in New York (when I’m...
Debbie Spragg Brisentine Plain City, OH I was born in 1954, lived in Mt. Pleasant Ohio, pop. approx. 500. Attended school from 1959-1972. Had both...
Emily Jackman, Durham, NH As a future educator, I am constantly learning new things myself. I want to learn as much as I can to...
Virginia, Cambridge, MA. I’m half Filipina. And I’ve always thought of myself as half. But one day at a faculty meeting a colleague told me...
Elizabeth Swenson, Hacienda Heights, CA. I went to school in NC were it was predominately black & white in2006. My husband and the majority of...
Madison Wells, Bettendorf, IA As a kid growing up I have always been told especially in school that I have no soul because of the...
Bobbi McCullen, Atlanta, GA I remember the first time I was made aware of “race”. My family had just moved to a new town, and...
Tayeece, NH Since I was born, nobody could pronounce my name. In school, appointments, meeting new people, etc. Everyday I would have to explain the...
Gabby Mbeki, Boston, MA. In the fall of 1997, I started 6th grade at a day independent school in Connecticut. I grew up in a...
Christina, Camarillo, CA I taught PE in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 12 yrs. During Homeroom, we taught our students the “Character Counts...
E.C. Boyd, Canton, OH. I was not born, but I was raised in a predominantly white neighborhood because the school system was better in Perry...
Anonymous, USA. “White boy”, , , . What I don’t understand is why there has always had to be a race at the bottom. No...