twitter Archives - The Race Card Project

Marie K. Shanahan, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@mariekshan. When you’re not quite minority enough. In 1997 at age 25, I came to terms with my place and my (mixed) race in America. I wrote a personal essay about it for The Hartford Courant: “Mixed Races, Mixed Messages: What Happens When You’re Asked To Choose Between Two […]

Oooh..can I touch your hair?

Soledad O’Brien, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@Soledad_OBrien. @michele_norris #theracecardproject

You are what you must defend

Don Cheadle, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@IamDonCheadle.

White people continually justify minority deaths.

Jana Ditton , Submitted via Twitter: @janaditton. @totn @michele_norris

America’s hooded winter must yield spring

Julie Delegal ‏ Submitted via Twitter: @julieinjax @totn @michele_norris #theracecardproject

“I am an undercover Mexican.” – a coworker of mine who doesn’t “look Mexican”

Paul Audette , Submitted via Twitter: @wisereturn5m.

Don’t tell that joke ever again!

Simone Robinson, Henrico, VA. Submitted via Twitter: ‏@PttSophisticate

Nobody cares I can’t speak Gaelic.

Island Vibe Jason ‏, Submitted via Twitter: @IslandvibeJason.

You don’t look like a Mexican.

Ryan Indianapolis, IN Submitted via Twitter: @Antisthanes

Deserves more than just six words

Tristan Cordier , Submitted via Twitter: @SharkStats. @totn @michele_norris

Black males are untrustworthy at best

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Submitted via Twitter: @dampajoo. #TheRaceCardProject You are offering your children up for sacrifice on the diversity altar. Whites must protect their children from black.

I’ll just call you Annie instead

Ms. Brooks, Submitted via Twitter: @TheREAL_MBrooks. @michele_norris #TheRaceCardProject

She’s just not the right fit

Matthew Shenoda, Submitted via Twitter: @matthewshenoda. “She’s just not the right fit” – The Hiring Committee.

“My son was crying for help”

Submitted via Twitter: @Only4RM #Trayvon’s father

I am not your take out menu.

Shashwati , Submitted via Twitter: @Shashwati1m.

Covering brown people? You’re an advocate.

J.Lantigua-Williams, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@JuleykaLantigua #theracecardproject

Convincing a tiger it’s a tiger.

John M Morgan, Submitted via Twitter: @jomorgs. #theracecardproject

Transracial adoptive family = living multiple realities

Steve Pederson , Submitted via Twitter: @stevped

Hair color, in a locked box

Shane Broyles, Submitted via Twitter: @sabroyles. Raleigh, NC. #theracecardproject Photo is not mine.

No 2 people are exactly alike

Submitted via Twitter: @caitlinchris

People see my eyes, not heart.

Submitted via Twitter: @MissFerragamo #theracecardproject

I hate hearing “the neighborhood changed”

Glenny Brock, Submitted via Twitter: @glennybrock Always code. In fact, most of the people I’ve heard say this were people who themselves CHANGED neighborhoods by leaving.

We aren’t all “Strong Black Women”

Ce Submitted via Twitter: @CelesteAurora Sunday March 11, 2012- 140 character exchanges spark a rich conversation… The Tweets that ignited the conversation… We aren’t all “Strong Black Women” @CelesteAurora Has “strong” become a euphemism for “it doesn’t matter how we treat them because they’ll survive”? Pamela Upsher ‏ @PupsherLive It seems so. […]

“You come off as too articulate.”

Bobby Rivers, Submitted via Twitter: @BobbyRiversTV @michele_norris #theracecardproject 6 words I’ve heard from Anglo producers in my TV career.

Opportunity to discover. Opportunity to misunderstand.

Stephen Marc Walls, Submitted via Twitter: @stephenwalls #theracecardproject

2007: Smuggled out of Eldoret, Kenya

Vancouver, Submitted via Twitter: @JAY_MC In Kenya for humanitarian work right before the election. Things got hairy and I was stuffed in a secret part of van.

There is always a misunderstanding.

Submitted via Twitter: ‏@enriquebrao, @totn @michele_norris #theracecardproject.

The real fear of a black parent

Belinda Gilmore, Maceo, KY It was early 2016, and I was on the phone talking to a friend I had not seen in a while. We were discussing life since she had to leave work due to a health issue. We both have a son the same age that would graduate high school in August. […]

You’ll never understand, unless lived it.

Damaris, MD Submitted via Twitter: @BklynOBGYN

Vision failed. Opportunity passed. Never again.

Seth Yaffo, Submitted via Twitter: @SethYaffo.

Gay doesn’t make me less Black

Exodus Rex, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@ExodusRex.

Civility heals wounds from the past

Submitted via Twitter: @WTyler2011. New Haven, CT.

My son wished for brown skin. Change?

Patty Lubold, Submitted via Twitter: @plubold .

Sweet, intelligent, handsome, loved black man

Kenyatta Yamel Milwaukee, WI Heard about this through twitter so I thought I would have my say.

Yes, I know how to swim.

Danielle , Submitted via Twitter: @perfectlygdkids.

A costume mistaken for an actor

Patricia Arnold Submitted via Twitter: @patarnold826

Racism’s mainly about money and power.

Submitted via Twitter: @vijayiyer

Twitter trends hashtag white girl problems

Kaitlyn Gravatt, West Long Branch, NJ. Monmouth University Whenever I click on Twitter I see #whitegirlproblems. How is Starbucks running out of my favorite drink a white girl problem? How is my eyeliner on one eye not matching my other eye a white girl problem? It is hurtful to be put into this stereotype that […]

Happy, friendly neighbors… until dating starts.

Submitted via Twitter: @Only4RM #theracecardproject Once open-minded, inclusive parents start to act nervous, different when cross-racial crushes develop & kids hit puberty. Some parents change around Junior High. All of above to some degree. More “oversight” of kids’ interaction. No more jokes about crushes. Group plans no more 1on1. The changes are subtle. To the […]

I’m glad my son is White.

Franklin Oliver, Submitted via Twitter: @FOLIVER4U.

Look at me in full color

Ty Martinez, Submitted via Twitter: @TyMartinez_tmb. I made a visual representation to accompany my #racecard#insixwords @michele_norris Sometimes. “I use pictures when words fail.”

Looks white. Is black. Hilarity ensues

Mat Johnson, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@mat_johnson

I’m here, you don’t see me

José Andrés, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@chefjoseandres. Yes that is chef José Andrés…

No I’m not Italian. I’m Chicano

Tony Diaz Houston, TX Submitted via Twitter: @AztecMuse

My mixed kids have it differently

George Washington III. Submitted via Twitter: @GWIII #theracecardproject George’s story was featured in NPR’s Morning Edition. Listen here, http://www.npr.org/2013/04/02/175292625/when-youre-mixed-race-just-one-box-is-not-enough

My mom said don’t say n*****.

David Thomas, Austin, TX Submitted via Twitter: @DavidRT A Note from Michele: David said his submission was “difficult to write”.

I’m not basically white, I’m suburban

KayBee, Washington DC. Submitted via Twitter: @PetiteKaybee

My brain looks like yours inside

Jeannette Brown, Submitted via Twitter @Sisterchemist, #theracecardproject

It will be up to women

Tayari Jones, Jersey City, NJ. Submitted via Twitter: @tayari

Marry white to dilute the brown.

Samantha ‏, Submitted via Twitter: @dsc00 My mom’s advice to my sister and I while growing up. For the longest I resented my fair skinned mom for making us feel inferior. Time has healed some of the pain but not all. Funny thing is both my sister & I ended up with white partners. So […]

Poll taxes keep blacks from voting

Clay Underwood Submitted via Twitter: @tclayunderwood TY for The Race Card Project, @michele_norris. My words, inspired by my mom’s first voting experience: Poll taxes keep blacks from voting.

I tell people “I am from THE planet earth”

Krupali, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@krupali.

I’m light-skinned. My black is harder

Big Tex, Submitted via Twitter: @bigtexmarketing

So, how did your parents meet?

Alexander Chee, Submitted via Twitter: @alexanderchee #theracecardproject Portrait of My Father by: Alexander Chee REPOST from granta.com His drink was Crown Royal, his candy bar, a Baby Ruth, though he didn’t like chocolate much. He was good at poker, loved reading Tolstoy. His suits were bespoke. […]

Picked first again still can’t hoop

Grady Barrens, Twitter: @realGinsanta @michele_norris #sixwordstory #theracecardproject

Made in the image of God

Submitted via Twitter: @MochaJuden #theracecardproject

Why emphasis on race in South?

Melanie Cogdill, Submitted via Twitter: @mcogdill.

We’re all mutts anyway. Who cares?

Raul Medina, Submitted via Twitter: @raulmedina #theracecardproject

Respect the differences you don’t like

Tyler Levine, Submitted via Twitter: @Tyler1l1 @michele_norris #theracecardproject

Grateful, granny called me black boy

Kevin Browne ,‏ Submitted via Twitter: @drbrowne #TheRaceCardProject “Black Boy” for Michele by: Kevin A. Browne I was grateful; granny was prophetic, almost making me out of clay, caressing my tar with old love. black before it was a color. we come from an oily family, our skins sticky to the touch. we, who gushed […]

Encourage education and tolerance for everyone

Chris Smith, Submitted via Twitter: @burning_wind @michele_norris

No, I do not know karate.

Kimi Redd ‏, Submitted via Twitter: @alaKimi.

I’m a story. Aren’t you too?

Heidi Durrow, Submitted via Twitter: @heididurrow.

Missing the point, making thing worse.

Denise Harris, Submitted via Twitter: @dharris15 #TheRaceCardProject

The world could use more grace

Tom Durso, Sub,itted via Twitter: @tomdurso #theracecardproject #AMAHigherEd:

Checkerboard squares sitting side by side

Mike Scourby Submitted via Twitter: @brooklynkid1951

It’s more than black and white

Dan, Submitted via Twitter: @onedcl. @michele_norris #theracecardproject

Gay is Not the New Black

Bethany O’Neal ‏, Submitted via Twitter: @bethanyoneal.

Uncomfortable misplaced white guilt without remedy

Angela Klocke Forbes, Submitted via Twitter: @AKlockeForbes #theracecardproject

When it matters, it doesn’t matter.

Submitted via Twitter: @IslandvibeJason #theracecardproject

White girl trying to create change.

Jillian Hiscock, Submitted via Twitter: @‏jhiscock.

Dignity and respect favor no color.

Constance R DeWitt, Submitted via Twitter: @crae100 #TheRaceCardProject

We do match on the inside.

MJ Norton, Submitted via Twitter: @mjnorton. #theracecardproject

“Why do you ‘play’ a slave?”

Nicole A. Moore, Virginia Beach, VA. Submitted via Twitter: @namoore Nicole Moore, Public Historian, Blogger, Consultant and Interpreter of Slave Life ‏ http://www.interpretingslavelife.com/

What if they were our own?

Ty Martinez, Submitted via Twitter: @TyMartinez_tmb. @michele_norris “What if they were our own?” #insixwords #BringBackOurGirls #bringbackourhope

The sound of heartbreak is loud.

Danielle DuCré, Submitted via Twitter: @sphereofdin

Spanish last name. No less American

Tony Bueno Submitted via Twitter: @tonybueno10

White Parents, Filipino daughter, don’t stare.

Ashley S. Westerman, Submitted via twitter: ‏@AS_Westerman. @michele_norris #TheRaceCardProject

The school cafeteria is still* segregated

Steven Rodgers, ‏ Submitted via Twitter: @metricmodulate. (Opt. “self* segregated.”)

Heart open. Mind closed. Love lost.

Becky Stewart, Submitted via Twitter: @davefan.

In academics, foreign names are intimidating.

Dahway, Submitted via Twitter: @ShadesOfWei.

I actually know how to swim

シドニー Submitted via Twitter: @_sxdni

Threatened identities become our most important

Samantha Martin, Submitted via Twitter: @traveladvising #theracecardproject

An Ignorant Way to Identify People

Татьяна [tɐˈtʲjanə] Submitted via Twitter: @montillathehun_ #theracecardproject

Black girl attitude, but sounds white

MonsterCookie, Submitted via Twitter: @MonsterCookie. @michele_norris #theracecardproject

“Why keep talking about racial issues?” -says only white people

Keith Martin, Submitted via Twitter: @KeithM8140 @michele_norris #theracecardproject

Guessing my ethnicity is not a game.

Altinay Cortes, Submitted via Twitter: @yanitla1687.

My race matters, my story matters.

Kathy Sisneros ‏, Submitted via Twitter: @sisneros623 #theracecardproject

Start with kids and mix well.

Anika Fajardo, MN. Submitted via Twitter: @anikawriter.

My black daughter needs extra protection.

Brenda Bielke, Submitted via Twitter: @brendabie. @michele_norris, #theracecardproject

The truth is difficult to discern.

Lynn Submitted via Twitter: ‏@Lynn4MK @totn @michele_norris

Difficult lessons learned early in life.

Kyle Jones, Submitted via Twitter: @MsKyleJones.

AmeriKKKa hates me! Business as usual…

Eriq Troi, Submitted via twitter: @EriqTroi, #racecardproject.

My fight is considered too radical

Jasmin H Submitted via Twitter: @hsting32

Hyphenating myself – how to prioritize culture?

Misbah Ahmed Submitted via Twitter: ‏@misbabaa #theracecardproject

Let’s all hit the reset button

Submitted via Twitter: @ABL_Brands. Lambertville, NJ.

Killed for living in American skin

Tiffany Yizar, Submitted via Twitter: @tyizar #TheRaceCardProject

Change is, and has been overdue

PRMediaHostRenee, Submitte via Twitter: @PRMediaHostRene #ShiningALight #BlackLivesMatter

When did Italians lose their box?

Trish Lewis ‏, Submitted via Twitter: @ECLECTICCHAIR.

So acceptable we all crack jokes.

Sara Tall, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@saractall. In my super diverse high school we would have said “So acceptable we all crack jokes.” Low income = high understanding.

Who will speak for him now?

Submitted via Twitter: ‏@macsmom, @totn #theracecardproject

Racism = acorn. White Privilege = oak tree

Rita Burch St. Paul, MN Submitted via twitter: @reetstweets

Learning more, trying harder, every day

Anne, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@anneburkhardt1m.

Glad love doesn’t come in colors.

Terry McMillan ‏ Submitted via Twitter: @MsTerryMcMillan

Stop saying I’m articulate. Please

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Brooklyn, NY Submitted via Twitter: @Sistalocks

Just being human should define us

Matt Bentz, Submitted via Twitter: @mbentz27. Drake University Des Moines, IA

Dr. Seuss and The Star-Bellied Sneetches

Aron Goldman Submitted via Twitter: ‏@ArgoJournal #TheRaceCardProject Watch Dr. Seuss’ The Sneetches

Gwen’s Take: Race, Morning Coffee & The Race Card Project

REPOST from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/gwens-take-making-peace-making-coffee/ Gwen’s Take: Making peace and making coffee BY GWEN IFILL March 20, 2015 at 10:52 AM EDT I woke up one morning this week to discover that Starbucks had decided to launch a new initiative at its coffee shops, branding their paper cups with a #RaceTogether hashtag and encouraging baristas to chat […]

Don’t Assume Anything About Me

KJStJ, Submitted via Twitter: @MiathePug #TheRaceCardProject

Trying to learn for my daughter.

Wendy Wetzel Submitted via Twitter I’m white; she’s black. How do I help her through so much new to me?

Honesty is better than revisionist history

Chris Vaught, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@chrismali. @michele_norris

We forget history’s lessons too easily

Submitted via twitter: @CTGlo #theracecardproject

Wishing it was disbelief I’m feeling

Jeff Hutchinson, Submitted via Twitter: @humblywalkin

Grateful I’m not a black man. (sigh)

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YaVaughnie Wilkins, Submitted via Twitter: @YaVaughnieW

It all goes downhill after these six words: “I am not a racist, but…”

Submitted via Twitter: @josephedison

Not white, not black enough. ME.

Travis Abercrombie, Submitted via Twitter: @Trabercrombie, #RaceCardProject

You’re not like other black people.

New york City, NY Submitted via Twitter: @junecross

Our legacy is students, not law

Martha S. Jones ‏ Ann Arbor, MI Submitted via Twitter: @marthasjonesUM

It’s too complex for six words

Brian Spears Submitted via Twitter: @briankspears Drake University Des Moines, IA

Diversity is the backbone of humanity.

Desiree Fletcher Submitted via Twitter: @fletcher_hayes Drake University Des Moines, IA

Race is a man made distinction

Kate Kimple Submitted via Twitter: @katekimple Drake University Des Moines, IA

First time minority finds grace in Detroit

Submitted via Twitter: @shannon2818

White Republicans can’t accept a black president.

Joe Heafner Submitted via Twitter: @heafnerj

“I’m so glad you’re a girl”.

Submitted via Twitter @Spinsterellla I Talked to my mom a few minutes ago (morning after the Trayvon Martin verdict) . She said to me ….. #TrayvonMartin

Bless this great big mocha world.

John Brocato. Submitted via Twitter: @johnwardbrocato.

But you are not really Black!

Submitted via Twitter: @marianleedavis. …often spoken as though it were a compliment by non-Black acquaintances.

Racism is stealing this President’s legacy.

Tisha Johnson, Submitted via Twitter: @TheShenme.

Inescapable mulatto nature of American culture

Submitted via Twitter: @zerode San Francisco, CA A quote from jazz critic Albert Murray. More about Albert Murray: Taken from http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/murray-albert-1916 Albert Murray, an African American novelist, jazz critic, professor, and essayist, was born in Nokomis, Alabama on May 12, 1916. His birth parents were Sudie Graham and John Young but he was adopted by […]

I’m black. I can’t be racist.

Submitted via Twitter: @hiawathaw , Nashville, TN.

Diversity is not an exclusive club

Guy Milhalter Washington DC Submitted via Twitter: ‏@GMilhalter

We built this country on genocide; slavery.

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Teri Aitch, Submitted via Twitter: @Talix18.

Culturelessness: how the oppressor oppresses itself

Katherine Rand , Submitted via Twitter: @itsalldhamma.

You are what you eat, rice.

Lesia Submitted via Twitter: ‏@LES_than3

Am I insensitive? Are you oversensitive?

Ann Mitchell Submitted via Twitter: ‏@Dburbsgal

Red hair. I’m always an outcast.

Submitted via Twitter: ‏@JAY__MC Virginia Beach, VA

Black and Hispanic, can’t choose one

Kyrk Morris ‏ Submitted via Twitter: @KyrkMorris

Why Are You Afraid Of Me

Mark Smith, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@MESmitty

Privilege knapsack=invisible Whiteness=visible

Submitted via Twitter: ‏@O_Mezota

White doesn’t equal slave owner past

Lisa Brazytis ‏ Submitted via Twitter: @lisa_brazytis #theracecardproject

Don’t assume I share your prejudices

Lisa Taylor-Reinwald Submitted via Twitter: ‏@Weesah89 @michele_norris

You are not Navajo enough

Submitted via Twitter: @kinlichiinii27 @MorningEdition #theracecardproject

Lady, I don’t want your purse.

Trill T. Sherman, Submitted via Twitter: @wu_youngAOM #theracecardproject

Ignoring” race doesn’t make it disappear

Tom Jackson’s Gums Submitted via Twitter: ‏@Deacon_TKD @michele_norris

You see me as I’m NOT!

Sonya J Van Alstyne, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@SonyaJordan #theracecardproject

White equals privilege? Who’s racist now?

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Scott Dillon Submitted via Twitter: ‏@Scoddee @totn @michele_norris #TheRaceCardProject

Obama’s election ripped off the band-aid

Submitted via Twitter: @Munsonism @michele_norris #theracecardproject

It could have happened in Wichita.

Cindy Kelly Submitted via Twitter: ‏@WichitaCindy #TheRaceCardProject @totn

Racism is still alive, just concealed.

Submitted via Twitter:‏ @KyrkMorris @totn @michele_norris

Black shoots black not in news

Submitted via Twitter: @cheraz76 @totn @michele_norris

“fight or flight” isn’t just white.

Submitted via Twitter: @cheraz76 @totn @michele_norris

Not institutional, but generational slavery remains

Women & Politics Submitted via Twitter: @wrip1m #theracecardproject

But you’re not BLACK black

Linda Powell, Submitted via Twitter: @misslindapowell #theracecardproject

Sometimes blacks are the biggest racists.

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Andrea Williams, Submitted via Twitter: ‏@AndreaWillWrite. #theracecardproject

Why few comments about Native Americans?

E A Oppenheimer ‏ Submitted via Twitter @Two_Cranes #TheRaceCardProject (this summer was 150th anniv of US-#Dakota War)#Minnesota READ MORE on this topic

I’m black because God said so

Pastor Ava C. Gaines Submitted via Twitter: @pastoravac

Still waiting for a post-racial society

Submitted via Twitter: @desert_sista #TheRaceCardProject

Nappy hair…mud-stained skin…beautiful anyway

Nailah Porter ‏ Submitted via Twitter: @NailahPorter

Who do you mean by ‘they’?

Steve Heyden ‏ Submitted via Twitter: @slideroolz #TheRaceCardProject

Mapping racist tweets after the election

Bill Lincoln, Submitted via Twitter: @born2flie. Mapping of Racist Tweets November 9, 2012 to Mapping by Nathan Yau VISIT: flowingdata.com/2012/11/09/map

Data-mapping illustrates continuing struggle in society

Troy Bouffard Submitted via Twitter: @ArcticTroy #TheRaceCardProject

Ralph Ellison would not laugh, Clint.

Submitted via Twitter: ‏@Only4RM The more I think about the “invisible” Obama, the more I think back on Ellison’s message. Powerful. EXCERPT FROM RALPH ELLISON’S INVISIBLE MAN “I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am […]

The race card does not exist.

Chris Roberts Submitted via Twitter: ‏@croberts5

Must I be the only one?

Kim Glenn Submitted via Twitter: ‏@kimtv

“American Mutt: Black, White and Native American” (That’s me!)

BKNYla ‏Submitted via Twitter: @bknyla #TheRaceCardProject

Sometimes a watermelon’s just a watermelon

Heather Martin Submitted via Twitter: ‏@heatherbrezo #TheRaceCardProject

Challenge the assumptions. Assume the challenges.

Antinuke Diver Boston, MA Submitted via Twitter: @Yes,We’reTogether

Interracial relationship, not because we’re blind.

Chicago, IL Submitted via Twitter: @SoulbyMax

Grandparents couldn’t have had our marriage.

Rachel Devenish Ford Submitted via Twitter: @journeymama http://www.journeymama.com

Socially constructed phenomenon with real consequences

Dr L’Heureux Dumi Lewis Submitted via Twitter @dumilewis via Twitter Clicking on the link below will take you to Uptown Notes: www.uptownnotes.com/

We’er bigger than black and white

John Brocato Starksville, MS Submitted via Twitter: @johnwardbrocato

We will all be beige someday

Bill Patterson Submitted via Twitter: ‏@NationRanch #Racecardproject

But I voted for Barack Obama

Caryn Riswold Submitted via Twitter: @feminismxianity

“The Chinaman is not the issue!”

Submitted via Twitter @excitedstoat http://t.co/HjpUM3T The Dude: Walter, he peed on my rug! Donny: He peed on the Dude’s rug. Walter Sobchak: Donny you’re out of your element! Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue here!

All are equal but differences matter…

Submitted via Twitter: @derricklweston

Hatred & bigotry are learned & practiced

Submitted via Twitter: @mltaylor13pt1

One drop of blood equals prejudice.

Melanie M. Cogdill ‏ Submitted via Twitter: @mcogdill My bi-racial kids? They are only seen as Asian.

Why do they still hate us

Kim Brown Submitted via Twitter: @KimBrownTalks

America, what’s a Black life worth?

@kg13

Black and female: Double the burden

Lady Toppington Submitted via Twitter: @TopVonMon

Standing ground shouldn’t equal hunting down.

Tomeka Hart Submitted via Twitter: @hartofmenphis

We aren’t all strong black women.