Misreading slavery due to modern morals.
Rikki Clark, Milwaukee, WI. I teach African-American literature and folklore at the university level. Often white students will say in class how they would have...
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Rikki Clark, Milwaukee, WI. I teach African-American literature and folklore at the university level. Often white students will say in class how they would have...
Kitra Mwania, Branson, MO. The confederate flag clearly means something important to the people around here. Being a black person who learned that this flag...
Celinda Ann Doyle, Stillwater, MN I mean slavery of all skin shades.
Megan, KY. Where to start. I have no clue. I guess I’ll start with some background about myself. I am a person full of love...
Moonlight Lady, Piedmont Triad, NC I am white, and I am sick and tired of African Americans who continually live in the past, and shove...
Michelle Hill, Oakland, CA. Our family is so fortunate that my great, great, great grandparents were not separated from each other and their children during...
Jasmine Shabazz, Beachwood, Ohio. So, never once have I blamed the white kids and there families for slavery. Never once did I say there ancestors...
Coach Rob The Constitution never really abolished slavery, anything with a loophole, never closes the loop. (Black Codes, Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration, George Floyd.) How...
Vero Korbenfeld, Miami, FL More often than not, minorities are running a race against each other, to see who wins the “most tragic history” ribbon....
Martha McKinney, Hector, NY My Quaker great-great grandfather was a conductor on the Underground Railroad in PA; my Quaker great grandfather fought against slavery in...
King Kellz, Fayetteville, NC. We only learn what America has taught us about our specific race.
Jana Everett, Denver, CO Studying the creation of race as a concept in the 1500s and its use to justify slavery, colonialism, genocide of indigenous...
Kristine Knowles, Idaho Falls, ID I’m a 56-year-old woman from the south and racism is worse now, by far than in my youth. Although being...
Mary Crabtree, Wooster, OH This is what my 6 year old bi-racial granddaughter said to me this summer. We had read a picture book about...
Jennifer Berkemeier, Farmington Hills, MI. I’m a single mom. I adopted my daughter from Haiti in 2012 when she was 4 years old. I’m white,...
Sam Henry, Ashville, NC. As a white male Social Studies teacher I always have a difficult time teaching slavery. From what I know about my...
Tori Carter, Sioux City, IA My name is Tori, and I am a senior at North High School. I am dual-enrolled at Western Iowa Tech...
Bruce Hawkins, Northampton, MA. That doesn’t make me guilty, it makes me responsible. Prison is the new slavery, and the Drug War is modern slave-catching.