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Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.

— Lester Holt

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

— Tim Wise

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

— Tim Wise

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

— Jonathan Coleman

Playing the race card is done as if it were some kind of sport.

— David A. Clarke, Jr.

For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.

— Benjamin Watson

The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies: Thou shall be deemed a racist.

— Monica Crowley

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

— Neneh Cherry

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

— Clarence Thomas

I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.

— Mickalene Thomas

✗Opposing Perspectives

You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

— Shemar Moore