I'm confused about this whole "race card" deal.

[IndianaJones]

Who plays this card...the minority or the white people?

I asked my mom and she says she was not dealt one. Who exactly gets this card? She would have liked to play it to get a better education or achieve economic equality.

[Little Star]

1. imho, everyone plays it sad to say. n/t

[Tyler Durden]

2. I would say that as well.

In this day and age, the Minorities would play ON the table/various bigots UNDER the table.

The bigot tent's the biggest one though, and they can play either way.

[bryant69]

3. Hell, if you are white, you can play it without even knowing it.

And without being a bigot.

That's the power of being white.

Bryant
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[Tyler Durden]

4. I like to think I've never done that....

That's the self-consciousness of being a small wimpy guy one's whole life. You tend to analyze what you say before you say it.

Or even THINK it sometimes.

[bryant69]

7. I do to- but then again you might never now.

Employee is looking through applications and sees a typically black name and my name; he calls me first. I don't know that this has happened. And everytime I've gone for a job it's cause I needed one.

Bryant

[LanternWaste]

9. In the last four years...

In the last four years, I've been pulled over for minor infractions five times. Each and every time, I get let go with the worst thing happening being a mere warning. Is that because I'm white? I think that is part and parcel of the answer.

I'm also clean cut, and always polite. That may have something to do with it, but then again-- I'd have a hard time believing that if an Hispanic person who was also clean cut and polite engaged in the precise same traffic infractions I did that he'd be let off with nothing more than a warning.

I don't pretend to know I got off simply because I'm white. But on the other hand, I don't deny the existence of institutional racism-- even in its most subtle and 'innocent' formats. :shrug:

[CitizenLeft]

5. I have come to really despise that expression.

"race card," "gender card," all of the "cards." It's flippant and distracts from the very real presence of racism and sexism in many of the cases where that term is used. Charging "race card" pigeon-holes a stance or point of view, detouring the discussion from the real issue.

This is not aimed at the OP at all, it's just a general comment. It's the media which has constantly used it for everything,and every time they do it, I want to throw something. Like my lunch.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Some white people think that racism is a game.

[BuyingThyme]

8. Everybody gets race cards.

The question is when is it inappropriate to play them.