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2000
Submitted by john on Mon, 2006-05-08 02:53.
I’ve looked within myself [and] ... the prejudices I have discovered I considered minor, but I realize that they still contribute to the problem.”
-Tiffany Wolf- 2000 Participant
“I never gave Black people a right to their culture or to their anger. I assumed that the ‘whiter’ a person of ethnicity acted, the more true to themselves he/she was being. Now I know that I was wrong in denying them their differences.”
-Lena Jasper- 2000 Participant
-Lena Jasper- 2000 Participant
“I just learned about the civil rights (movement) in history and this helped me to understand what everyone thought and why they did what they did. It shows the more personal side of their whole involvement.”
-Michelle Wilson- 2000 Participant
-Michelle Wilson- 2000 Participant
“He really makes you think. Ya, we aren’t slaves anymore, but we really do not have all the rights as whites. Blacks still get judged just by their color and still get rejected.”
-Rochelle Barnes- 2000 Participant
-Rochelle Barnes- 2000 Participant
“I realized that some of the things I say aren’t the best things to say. The things I said that [I thought] were funny aren’t funny anymore.”
-Sara Miller- 2000 Participant
-Sara Miller- 2000 Participant
“I wanted to cry. I cried. I didn't want to cry. I cried.”
-Lena Jasper- 2000 Participant
-Lena Jasper- 2000 Participant
“It made me angry to see how people could turn the black culture into... distorted images. ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Mad TV’ are ways that we make fun of different cultures and races [today].”
-Jessica Tobe- 2000 Participant
-Jessica Tobe- 2000 Participant
“I understand alot more about history and what people went through. It’s easier to understand when you see it with your own eyes.”
-Rochelle Barnes- 2000 Participant
-Rochelle Barnes- 2000 Participant
“When I get back [to Jamestown] and see stuff or hear things like this, I’m going to remember this museum.”
-Sara Miller- 2000 Participant
-Sara Miller- 2000 Participant
“I just can’t stand by and be... silent in the fight [against] racism. If I don’t take a clear cut side then I am only contributing to the problem... and now I see how big a problem this still is.”
-David Smith- 2000 Participant
-David Smith- 2000 Participant
“I will ask them not to talk like that... I will take racism as a personal insult.”
-Michele Lorenzo- 2000 Participant
-Michele Lorenzo- 2000 Participant
“I wouldn’t let my friends say prejudice things... and I will work harder to watch what I say. It will hopefully spread around through my friends.”
-Sara Miller- 2000 Participant
-Sara Miller- 2000 Participant
“I understand that to heal the wounds of racism I can’t just be a silent observer. When I see racism, I have to say something or I am contributing to the problem.”
-David Smith- 2000 Participant
-David Smith- 2000 Participant
“Our job is only half over. Now we have to take the knowledge we have gained and teach others.”
-Jason Good- 2000 Participant
-Jason Good- 2000 Participant
“I’ve looked within myself [and] ... the prejudices I have discovered I considered minor, but I realize that they still contribute to the problem.”
-Tiffany Wolf- 2000 Participant
-Tiffany Wolf- 2000 Participant
"I'm really glad that [Mr. O'Hare] stepped out of what he knew...to help and make a stand. He worked with so many men that had made a difference in the world."
-Darla- 2000 Participant
-Darla- 2000 Participant
"... the interviewers asked Simone (a girl from the neighborhood) what she would change in her community and country. She said she would get a new President because the President right now has concern for his Americans, but not his African-Americans. I never thought about issues like that... I always had a president with the same race as me."
-Tiffany Wolf- 2000 Participant
-Tiffany Wolf- 2000 Participant
"He really makes you think. Ya, we aren't slaves anymore, but we really do not have all the rights as whites. Blacks still get judged just by their color and still get rejected."
-Rochelle- 2000 Participant
-Rochelle- 2000 Participant
"I was totally blown away by the anger that people had."
-Jeff- 2000 Participant
-Jeff- 2000 Participant
"She is a great person (Emmett Till's Mother) to talk to and I'm glad we got [the chance] to talk to her."
-Sara- 2000 Participant
-Sara- 2000 Participant
"I felt like someone was always watching my every move to see my reaction to different things that were said."
-Tiffany Wolf- 2000 Participant
-Tiffany Wolf- 2000 Participant
"When we went into the sanctuary everyone was looking at us. It was an intimidating situation, but people walked up to me [to] shake my hand and talk to me. It helped to break the ice."
-David- 2000 Participant
-David- 2000 Participant
"...[The congregation] acts like they all had some bond between each other and that was so cool. But I felt so different going to that church. But it was a good different."
-Carrie- 2000 Participant
-Carrie- 2000 Participant
"There was a song (with racist language). It was the worst feeling to stand there... and not be able to do anything about it because it is not possible to change the past."
-Michele L.- 2000 Participant
-Michele L.- 2000 Participant
"My heart goes out to (Kiara). I really didn't think I was going to get so attached."
-Rochelle- 2000 Participant
-Rochelle- 2000 Participant