The award-winning Race Card Project poses a deceptively simple task for its participants: think about your experiences, questions, hopes, dreams, laments or observations about race and identity. Then, take those thoughts and distill them to just one six-word sentence.
We are the creators of this website. These are our six words.
CONSTRUCTING RACE
Not being racist is not enough. -Sam | Racism: the beating heart of capitalism. -Micaela | Elementary school testing, checking the white box. -Kimmie |
RACIAL HISTORY OF WFU
Irish-American is not a race. -Katie | White America: stop being so complacent -Julia | White liberals maintain white supremacy too. -Callie |
WAKE BY THE NUMBERS
We create and recreate race everyday. -Natalie | Asking me “what are you?” hurts. -Jasmine | Inclusion. Something only White people fear. -T.K. |
MICROAGGRESSIONS & INSTITUTIONAL RACISM
Be a rainbow in somebody’s cloud. -Drea | I’m a reflection of the community. -Maya | Colorblind policy does not mean equality. -Megan |
DEBUNKING DIVERSITY
Living Black in a white world. -Jayson | Born: Domestic American. Forever: Foreign Asian. – Ann | Loving my blackness is my revolution. -Akua |