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