The phrase
"race card" refers to the act of using someone's race as a means of gaining advantage or deflecting criticism in a conversation or argument. It suggests that someone is using their race as a tool to manipulate or dismiss opposing viewpoints.
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Any such contest in solid Labour territory with such a clear racial divide will
involve race cards being played.
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.
In the last twenty years I've become a racist just because we are forced to listen to a bunch
of race card playing whiney, hypothetical, pos.
The campaign in Oldham East was fiercely fought and as I recollect the Lib Dems played a heavy
race card against Phil, very early on, attempting to use Palestine cynically as a hook to catch the muslim vote.
Norris, the familiar voice of NPR and proprietor of the online
Race Card Project, made the statement about 3 1/2 Minutes, one of five movies that the U.S. Documentary Jury (comprised of Norris, Kirsten Johnson, Gordon Quinn, Roger Ross Williams and myself) honored over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival.
Its time the church acted like a church and stop pointing fingers at who's to blame for someones fall and that
includes race cards!
Rangel's decision to play the
moral race card is the latest salvo by old - guard Harlem Democrats to try to prevent Cuomo from running against Paterson.
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Cries more than my 11 mth old daughter and evidently has a truck full
of race cards.
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.
Hey Aja, why don't you go take a trip over to Fox News website and look at the comments page for the Whitney Houston or Trayvon Martin articles, and tell me who's carrying around
the race card like a badge.
In a seminar called: «Trump
the race card: Are you sick and tired of being called a racist when you know you're not one?»
To play
the race card, why is it that so many beautiful blondes have a case against Christianity?
Ever wonder why the play
the race card so much?
But a 2 child policy, applicable to all, will pass
the race card test, and can not be defeated on such grounds, the very grounds upon which all such defences of islam will be mounted in the courts.
they know they have a gullible audience, they always use
the race card and they are singularly the most racist race mongers of this era.
He and his family played the religion card because they couldn't play
the race card.
Or, «They're just playing
the race card.»
Thus many Christians today mistake lament as «playing
the race card» or «minorities» inability to overcome the past.»
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.»
Sorry, typical lib playing
the race card and not calling things as they are.
When your ideas are dead, and your mental capacity is maxed by simple arithmetic, then pull
the race card.
@Jannae: Congratulations on pulling out
the race card.
The race card is just too played out... stop it already!
Don't say liberals are pulling
the race card, when it's clear that genuine racists have gone public.
One can't blame CNN for playing
the race card, though.
Let's not throw
the race card into every discussion.
That is there cry for everything that they disagree with, it is to play
the race card and liberals will always go along with it for the fear that they will loose the black vote and be labeled Racist.
Much the same way, when it comes to
the race card — if there weren't a race card to begin with, I wouldn't play it.
If this is slow why can't African American's get over slavery and quit playing
the race card believing they are owed something?
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.
Clinton's reputation took a nosedive after he imploded during the South Carolina primary contest, accusing Obama of playing
the race card.
If you are not black you can not understand, that is why you refer to it as
a race card and black call it reality.
And on
the race card: A republican friend of mine likes to joke about stereotypes.
Whats with
the race card?
He has shown time and time again that he will play
the race card when he thinks it suits him.