If You Don't Know Me By Now

I am totally fascinated by visual artist Faith Ringgold's Racialquestions.com a "conceptual study on race and color in America."

Ms. Ringgold is interested in finding out:

"what a person would feel, think and do if their racial identity was suddenly changed. In other words what would it be like to Wake up Black in America (if you were white) or, what would it be like to Wake up White in America (if you were a person of color)?"

Racialquestions.com presents two online questionnaires:

Questionnaire A is for white people.

Questionnaire B is for all people of color.

Other people's answers are also available on the artist's website.

Meta-text: Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid by Jonathan Kozol (Harper's Magazine September, 2005)

The image is Norman Rockwell's.

Faith

Have you heard of Transit Check? It's a commuter benefits program that allows you to set aside up to $120 per month tax free to pay for your transit costs. It saves you money. Your employer has to set it up for you and all that information is here. It's not just for the subway, but also for commuters using other forms of transit.

I am waiting for this month's metrocard, which will cost me less than it would if I got it directly from the lovely people who run the MTA. By lovely, I mean incompetent.

I think Public Art is one of the glorious things about riding the subway.

Faith Ringgold's work is installed in the subway station at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. It's an extravagant tile mosaic which is worth a visit. I took a picture on my phone at 125th street subway station, yesterday. I also posted it on Twitter. You should go see it though.