Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.
Playing the race card is done as if it were some kind of sport.
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.
Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.
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.
Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.
In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.
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.
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.