VT Archives - The Race Card Project

Curious, white-bread girl with few models.

Stephenie Swindle, Brattleboro, VT I may say the wrong thing or ask the questions that every privileged person asks, but I still want to understand...

My children are black. I’m not.

10 months ago10 months ago

William G. Duval, Fairfax, VT. My wife and I have a racially blended family in one of the whitest states in the union. I think...

Because of my badge, I’m racist?

2 years ago2 years ago

Justin Walker, Bennington, VT. As a police officer I quite often get the “you only stopped me because I’m black” or some variant of that...

I matter. You matter. WE matter.

3 years ago

Penny Cayia, Colchester, VT

Class can make white privilege invisible.

4 years ago4 years ago

Kayla Bernier-Sontag, Brattleboro, VT. Smith College I’m a student at Smith College and my six word story is about my observations in social justice education–the...

I didn’t get to know her.

4 years ago4 years ago

Sarah Hildreth Ingersoll, Middlebury, VT Growing up in Baltimore in the 70’s and 80’s, I attended an all-girls’ school, starting in fifth grade. In the...

I’m a Bohemian refugee from Negroland.

5 years ago5 years ago

Opeyemi Parham, Dummerston, VT. Both my Middle Class, African slave descent parents were artists. So my life had shadows from Margot Jefferson’s Negroland, but great...

Otosan, please teach us your language.

6 years ago6 years ago

Jaimie Scanlon, Brattleboro, VT. My husband is bilingual Japanese-American. His mother, raising three boys in Iowa in the 1960s, made sure her sons grew up...