The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Karlet Shakira Perez Kelly,
Puerto Rico, PA
The reason that I say this is because, when I was born they started giving me everything that I wanted just because I was the first girl that my dad had.
Eastern University, Esperanza College
Bill Lee,
Simi Valley, CA.
I was raised seeing the world through the rose colored veil of white privilege. I now know this. Spoiled and clueless white Americans need to wake up to a new reality where we are just another face in a multi cultural crowd.
Emily Chamberlain,
LeMars, IA
Growing up my family did not have much but after years of hard work from both my parents, we began to have nicer items, a house, and cars. Then as I began to switch high schools every year at every new high school I got called the same thing repeatedly, “spoiled white girl” I also heard “daddy’s money” on a daily. Which is not the case I have worked since I was fifteen. If I want clothes I buy them, need gas I paid for it, but no one ever believed that I actually worked for what I have. Just because my parents work hard does not mean I am spoiled.
Cassidy-Rae Bastarache,
Gardner, MA
I’m white and some people assume that I am privileged and have money based on some of the expensive things that I own and the vacations that I have taken. The truth is that my parents are hard working middle class people who work lots of overtime to give me and my brother all the things in life they never had.
Charley Birdsall,
Kailua, HI
One night, my friends were having dinner across the street from where my family and I were having dinner. So, I decided to go surprise them. They were all in the bathroom and when I went in there I startled them and they screamed. Then a very white employee that was a girl stormed into the bathroom and said without even thinking or looking at us “Are you guys having white girl problems”. A white girl problem is a way to refer to something as dramatic or ungrateful. To someone who doesn’t understand the situation a white girl problem could come across very pointless and stupid. This experience made me very offended since the employee didn’t know our situation and she atomically referred to us as spoiled brats. A synonym for white girl problems is a spoiled brat. She had no right to say this since she was also very white and young.
Cassandra Krummel
Seaford, NY
Being a white girl brought up in New York was difficult. I went to school where many of the students were black and to them, I was a spoiled white girl. Coming to college and joining a sorority never helped the situation. Every time I am confronted by a black person, they tell me I am a spoiled white sorority girl. I have worked since I was 14 and never got anything handed to me. I had to get a job right when I got to college and had to buy my own car. The things I do and achieve, I work hard for. The racism and stereotyping by BOTH races is a major issue in this world and it needs to stop. We are all equal and as I read through the cards, one person stated, “Wear blindfold’s and FEEL one’s character.” This is the best advice I have read regarding this issue.
Melanie Lindgren
Grand Rapids, MI
I was living in Florida for about four years. Most of the girls I met down there were rich, spoiled, tan, beautiful girls. My grandparents came here from Latvia towards the end of World War 2 and as such, I have blonde hair and extremely pale skin. I would always get called Casper, or asked if I had cancer. It got to be ridiculous and offensive, since most of what was said was in bad faith and only said to be a mockery. Racism isn’t just different colors of skin, but different tones too.
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