Our honest, hidden thoughts on race captured in just 6 words More than half a million people shared their experiences with the Race Card Project. Here's what they said. “He’s my dad, not the gardener.” Kelly Stuart-Johnson holds a photo from 1995 of her mother and stepfather. The six words she submitted to the Race Card Project hint at how race often leads to false assumptions. Wayne Lawrence Email The most interesting, most revealing, most honest, and gravest conversations about race are the ones we typically never get to hear, because they percolate in private spaces. In the locker room or the bedroom. At the kitchen table or during a smoke break outside the factory. The conversations people have with themselves in their own head while brushing their teeth or driving to work.