R.A.C.E.

Race. When you hear the word, you automatically begin to choose your words more wisely. A hostile, or sticky persona pervades the conversation as soon as ‘race’ is introduced. Trying to balance your opinion, defend your race and stay politically correct is difficult. Is this why we have seen minimal progress in how we have talk about race? Is this why people rather subject themselves and others to a “strained silence… where any discussion of racial matters is—at best—strained, contested, and regularly ugly” (Walton)? Anthony Walton breaches this topic in article titled

“Let's face it: We need a new way to talk about race”.

The Race Card Project presents an alternate outlet for people to publicly unleash their racial feelings or tensions. This is a new way of talking about race. However, this takes away from the personal, face to face aspect of talking about race. And that is arguably the biggest place where we need to change our ways. The website fosters new thought and allows people to easily talk about race. But there are limitations to the site; is 6 words enough to capture a given experience? Is this form of expression too limited due to the fact that most of the entire are too short? Or why is there no discussion under most of the post with comments, in which people go back and forth using ethical rhetoric? Yes, the idea of race and the expression behind it is brought up. But does this project help us talk about race differently, as Anthony Walton proposes. This is still in question.

See more from source used at: http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201306/lets-face-it-we-need-new-way-talk-about-race-27409#sthash.5CB5M6IH.dpuf