NPR Race Card Project 

My Name Is Jamaal ...I'm White 
Jamal is a high school teacher Allan is. White and it has taking him on a long odyssey of racial encounter. He grew up in oregon his parents wanted a less traditional name for there children . He was named after a Los Angeles lakers which his dad was big fan of . Jamaal mean beauty in Arabic.he was out with his black friends  the waitress or bartender would give his card to one of his friends because the name on the card .The school he was hired only hired him because they wanted some diversity in there school. On the first day of school when he introduce himself they all though that Jamaal was going be black and not white . "There was a pregnancy pause " because they didn't expect his name to be Jamaal .