Sentences with phrase «playing race card»

If think I am playing the race card, or preparing our child for racism that no longer exists in a post-Obama US... well wait until your child comes home from kindergarten having been called the n - word.

I hate playing the race card and I would like to hope that in this day and age I wouldn't have to but NO ONE wants to help my African American daughter succeed in the Math program!

Others reported that their Indigenous identity had been doubted or belittled, or that they had been accused of gaining advantage by «playing the race card».

The character turned out to be remarkably elastic: as Linda Williams reports in her book Playing the Race Card, traveling theater companies created their own dramatizations of the novel, know as «Tom shows,» and each subsequent version strayed farther from the book.

The book never gets boring for a moment, with the author gleefully dishing behind - the - scenes dirt on everything from Michael's sham marriages, one for money, one to buy some babies who aren't even his, to his fear of flying to his playing the race card strategically to his personal hygiene and cosmetic habits.

What's racist is that the source of the humour is a black guy cynically playing the race card in a movie that subsequently mines laughs from someone's accent.

Offending my every sensibility, I just could not take any more horrendously bad humor and noise pollution, and what's worse is how cavalier it is in playing the race card to try to get laughs.

I heard Robert Gibbs call Micheal steele foolish for playing the race card.

Astorino is fighting back with an internet video, where he accuses the Democrats and Cuomo of playing the race card.

The Obama Administration is playing the race card to win the November election and keep control of Congress.

The democrats have inadvertantly nominated a candidate playing the race card when they intended to get a post-racial candidate.

Republicans like Paladino, Angle, Newtie, Rand and most of the baggers are experts at playing the race card.

An Espada supporter playing the race card — is anyone surprised?

The Chicago Tribune's John Kass wrote, «Is it too late for President Barack Obama to pick up the phone, call Hillary Rodham Clinton and dump Vice President Joe Biden for playing the race card against Republican Mitt Romney?

He would have been accused to playing the race card or more charitably, reading too much into it.

Don't bring cloud daddy into this, it's a football match i wanted to hear in english, i did say sorry to offend, but you insisted playing the race card, yawn.

In the other red corner, Liverpool fans pointed to Evra's turbulent summer and history of «playing the race card», in their haste failing to note that on both previous occasions the card had been played by other people.

Clinton's reputation took a nosedive after he imploded during the South Carolina primary contest, accusing Obama of playing the race card.

If this is slow why can't African American's get over slavery and quit playing the race card believing they are owed something?

Playing race card is simplistic.

On the other hand whites often perceive these incidents as relatively less important, as isolated events that aren't necessarily related to larger societal issues, and / or the result of blacks engaging in «race - baiting» or «playing the race card.»

Thus many Christians today mistake lament as «playing the race card» or «minorities» inability to overcome the past.»

Or, «They're just playing the race card.»

But there is still alot of Blacks who just loves playing the Race Card for whatever reason they seem fit.

I have not played the race card in my remarks at all.

He and his family played the religion card because they couldn't play the race card.

Now, before some of you exhibit the republican knee - jerk effect (and in all fairness the dems have their own version), exclaiming how I blow the things out of proportion, or that equating economic sanctions with abortion is not only wrong, but evil, or how easy it is to just play the race card, remember this: You do not serve a political party, but God.

And every time I get a chance to play my race card I am.

The reason Obama has such a delegate lead is BECAUSE Obama played the race card out of South Carolina and it paid off in Virginia, Maryland the deep South.

It seems our post racial president plays the race card at every opportunity, calling budget and government busters bigots.

They plan to play the race card.

A word of advice, look in the mirror before you play the race card.

Tony Blair's Number 10 seized on the comments as they dominated the news agenda, with Alastair Campbell reassuring lobby journalists that the prime minister would «never play the race card».

«We expected it to be in September and October, where he'd play the race card and all that nonsense.

ALBANY — Gov. Paterson has played the race card.

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis countered this morning with a terse but harsh statement: «Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck.

THEY ARE ALL THE SAME CHEATING LIARS WHO PLAY THE RACE CARD TO EXCUSE THEIR WRONG DOINGS.

UPDATE: The NY Daily News editorialized («Keith Wright and Adriano Espaillat play race card in district squabble «-RRB- against the racially divisive remarks at that House of Justice rally on Saturday.

Play the race card, the right way!

(One Academy voter recently admitted, anonymously, to having rejected Get Out, Jordan Peele's deeply innovative and urgently important Best Picture contender, out of hand — precisely because, the voter groused, «as far as I'm concerned, they played the race card.»)

Good lists @Joey Magidson, ignore those hate comments you're getting especially when all they can do is play the race card.

But at the same time he's not going to play the race card every time something happens, whether race is the basis for it or not.»

AD: Don't be so quick to play the race card, fatty.

Not exact matches

The rise in interest rates to 20 percent by 1980 forced most states to revoke their usury laws, and credit card companies played states against each other in a race to the bottom when it came to protecting consumer rights.

The race card is just too played out... stop it already!

So mired in white blindness, so lost in the liberal orthodoxy that counts mere dissociation from racism as virtue, and so addicted to the easy moral esteem that comes to her from dissociation, Dowd plays the oldest race cards of all - I'm white and you're black, so shut up and be grateful for my magnanimity.

Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

Too lazy to play his own race cards?

The Cardinals are left to play spoiler, finishing off their regular season with three home games against the Brewers, who are still alive in the Wild Card race, for now.

Despite their incendiary play, theTwins still trailed the Tigers by 11 games in the AL Central and the White Soxby nine in the wild - card race at week's end.