The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Ed Kaufman,
Morris, MN.
Another Six words: My grandfather stood witness at Mankato. I enjoyed seeing you at UM Morris a while back (when this would have been timely given the 150th anniversary of the Mankato Debacle)
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Scotty,
Detroit, MI.
Race is real. Sometimes, it is also necessary to play the role we are born into. Most of the time, however, we don’t need to look at the world through a racial lens. This causes judgement and suffering because of who we take ourselves to be. What you see, you cannot be. “My race, my gender, my sexuality, etc.” Who is the witness of all identity? Look for yourself. See what remains.
Ryan Brooke Taylor,
New York City, NY.
Collected from: WITNESS: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at The Brooklyn Museum
My experience as a black male artist is directly related to the sacrifices and gains made by those who participated, in any and every way in the civil rights movement. They have made me free.
I’m simply a Black male Actor carving out my life in America.
I believe that who I am as a person; my integrity, my ethics, my humanity, these aspects of self are reflected in Everything I do.
Right now I have the honor of being in a wonderful production of Tracey Letts’s “Superior Donuts”. A play about race, class, and the american dream as played out in the gentrifying neighborhood of north- side Chicago.
To me, living a conscious life today is a revolutionary act. My existence as a Black, Gay, working Artist is in itself a Politic. It’s seems to me that the important questions are: What kind of neighbor am I? What hind of partner am I? What kind of citizen am I? What kind of artist am I? What kind of human being am I?
And the answers lie not in what I think and even less in what I say, but in what I do.
Anonymous,
USA.
I’ve witnessed several other whites that have had similar experiences of being beaten or bullied by blacks, throughout my life. I’ve witnessed much more racism towards whites than the other way around. Some people say it’s racist to be afraid of blacks. Where I grew up, it’s just common sense. This was not taught to me by my parents or the media. This was learned through tough experiences growing up. To this day I have a mistrust and at times an absolute hatred for some blacks because of what I went through and continue to see happening in America. And it’s not just the violence that has shaped these thoughts. From seeing black leaders making accusations of racism at the drop of a hat to black comedians making racist remarks the main subject of their standup routines. As a white male I feel as though blacks can get away with racism of any kind because the media is too scared to point out the hypocrisy. But we all see it. And racism will never die in America as long as the black community continues to take advantage of “white guilt”.
Michael. C. Fleishman
Yellow Springs, OH
This was an absolutely splendid show that impacted me spiritually, emotionally, artistically. Thank you for the opportunity to witness.
Melissa Johnson
Brooklyn, NY
With the continual killing and imprisoning, marginalization and exploitation of the black individual–blackness as an identity is loved and hated all while being continually othered
Daniel Scott Gittens
The Bronx, New York City, NY
Bruce Rosen
New York City, NY
Manhattan
The 3 words together would be inconceivable today & not for the right reasons
Jane Dorick
Midlothian, VA
This was, I think, my mother’s way of letting others know that she didn’t consider herself a racist or as culpable for the horrible things done to blacks that we were all witnessing.
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