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Talk of the Nation- Race Cards’: Six Words On Trayvon Martin’s Death

Listen to  Race Cards’: Six Words On Trayvon Martin’s Death from NPR’s Talk of the Nation.

Nearly a month after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Florida, the widespread shock and outrage has grown into a nationwide movement calling for justice. This week, the Justice Department announced it would conduct a federal investigation of the incident.

But the Trayvon Martin story has also turned into a dialogue about …

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We’re so much more than that!

Racism is not *seeing* the person’s humanity, it’s sticking everyone in the pre-assigned box and results in shock when human complexity dares to defy the formula.

-Vanessa Valdes, New York,

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“Vote (for) Obama! He looks like me!”

Jessica Sheffield at age 8 as quoted by her adoptive father, Val Sheffield at the University of Iowa
He wonders, “Should I be happy or dismayed by this comment?”

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I hate hearing “the neighborhood changed”

Always code. In fact, most of the people I’ve heard say this were people who themselves CHANGED neighborhoods by leaving.

@glennybrock via twitter

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Trying to Learn through my daughter

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

-Wendy Wetzel via twitter

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You must be scared to death

What a black man told me when I joined him and his two friends at the bus
stop.

-Kurt Streich
Minneapolis, MN

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Marry white to dilute the brown

My mom’s advice to my sister and I while growing up. For the longest time 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 she got her wish in the end.

– @dsc00 (Samantha)

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Glad love doesn’t come in colors

Otherwise I would have missed a lot of love in my life.

– @MsTerryMcMillan via twitter

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We aren’t all strong black women

It’s more than a stereotype…almost an expectation (from all races) that “strong” is what black women should be. Has “strong” become a euphemism for “it doesn’t matter how we treat them because they’ll survive”?

@CelesteAurora via twitter

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Talking about race isn’t racist.

Race exists.
When people have honest and constructive dialogues about race,
beliefs can be challenged and minds can be opened.

Catherine Mims, La Mirada, CA

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