The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
JuLaw,
Syracuse, NY.
When I was in Fla. in the 60s, Blacks (colored people, negroes,) or what name you may have been called, could not sit on the front sit a bus. We had to go into the back of the bus. Today, externally, it may not be that way, but in some cases, internally, it is still the same way with some whites.
JR
Baltimore, MD
I am white and an Ashkenazi Jew. I was brought to this country by my refugee parents from Soviet Union when I was 18 with no preconceived notion about race or racism. I heard these words about 10 years later. They were shouted into a phone by a black man on Light Rail in Baltimore after I refused his demand to move from my seat. (I always offer my seat to elderly or disabled or women, but he was neither and looked fully capable)
Lu Ann Joplin
The Villages, FL
I was in junior high, she was in high school. I’m white, she’s black. She asked if she could sit with me. I said sure. It didn’t occur to me it could be a problem. I really got the treatment everyday when she got off the bus. The bus driver did nothing about the taunts. One day they took my coat and I told my parents. They gave the bus driver an earfull. I wasn’t brought up to see anyone as different. When I got to high school I was on the newspaper staff. Once we were having a meeting at my house. There was a black girl older than me on the staff. She asked what my parents were going to say when she walked in the door. I told her they would probably say “Hi.” She showed up and of course in my home it was no big deal.
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