Why Liberals Play the Race Card

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Well lets parse this post that GatorFool likes so much.....


http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2011/06/race-is-not-a-card-its-a-reality/
Race Is Not A Card, Its A Reality

Friday Jun 10, 2011 – by Jamilah Lemieux

When I was a high school sophomore, I read a short bio of Huey P.Newton over my school’s loudspeaker during some sort of Black History Month activity. Later that day, my (Jewish) English teacher made a “joke” about my omission of the details of Newton’s death (he was allegedly killed while purchasing crack in 1989). I didn’t find this funny at all. Up until this point, he had been one of my favorite teachers. I decided to write him a letter expressing my feelings and at the end, I quoted Langston Hughes’ “Theme For English B:”
Why did you omit this pertinent detail about Newton? Thinks it unimportant? It actually says quite a lot about the man...goes to his character, his moral code, his values.
Can't YOU accept the truth why you choose to not reveal his drug habit?...........maybe its racism.....if Newton was white, you would have revealed it and maybe made more of it than need be.....racism....

You are white—yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That’s American. Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are, that’s true! As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me—although you’re older—and white—and somewhat more free.

I'm sure the teacher considered your race about the issue and didn't make a big deal about it....he just made you aware that he was aware....

I felt mature and thoughtful…until he returned it to me with his response: “…if you play the race card, you’ll oft be ignored.”

While I understood his argument that he’d mocked the Puritans, Homer and plenty of other White folks…he’d only taught us about White folks. Most of whom were also male. This had been the case in most of my History classes as well: Whiteness at the center. So I took my opportunity to share some Black facts with my classmates very seriously. But even if the teacher couldn’t handle my critique of his words, the fact that he accused me–a 16-year-old–of “pulling the race card” upset me greatly. That was the last time I registered for one of his classes. By senior year, we no longer spoke when we passed one another in the hallway.

YOU got upset, you got your ass up, you got huffy about it all......racist ?
You ceased to speak to the man over this nothing issue.....racist ?
The truth will set you free.

The “race card” is a concept that has been used to silence people of color who attempt to speak out when they feel that race has been used unfairly in determining how people are treated. It is one of the most dangerous weapons in the White privilege toolbox, for it implies that a non-POC would know better when something is truly racist than someone who is constantly subjected to racism. That said, it isn’t that people of color can never be wrong about denouncing something as racism, but that they should be treated with a level of deference when expressing their concerns. Instead of having something dismissed as someone pulling a card, these complaints should be respectfully analyzed and received. If someone is truly committed to being non-racist, the appropriate reaction to a charge of racism is “I don’t feel like what I did was racist. Can you help me understand why you feel that way?”, not accusing someone of using race to be manipulative or deceitful.

I agree, the race card is used to silence your opposition....whites seldom use because their is little opportunity to do so....Blacks use it so frequently against whites, its beginning to lose some of its sting and stigma......other races almost never use against whites....why is that?....Whites just love every other race but no blacks ?

But, alas, in a world of White privilege where is the incentive to say “You’re right, that was racist of me”? or “I didn’t mean to be racially insensitive”? And for even those who pride themselves in being non-racist, where would a non-Black person be taught the difference? If racism doesn’t negatively impact you in a very obvious way, it’s quite a task to say, “hey, let me learn about this so I make sure that I’m not out here supporting an unfair system of advantage that benefits me.”

Graduation rates are absurdly low with blacks....Prison's are overflowing....gang violence is out of control.....blacks kill blacks at an alarming rate.....unemployment is close to 30% or something isn't it....?,,,,,Is it any surprise that blacks remain in the lower brackets of economic society
Is this racism....or is it the truth....If not for sports, music, and entertainment, those stats would be even worse....and it ain't because of 'white privilege'...


It’s an amazingly duplicitous thing, to flip racism around so that the person who is the victim now looks like the guilty party because of their observations of someone’s behavior. A Black woman who feels that she has been passed over for a raise because of her background may be told that she is ‘pulling the race card’ and that racism will never end so long as people like her “see race in everything.” But how can you not see something that is constantly there?

The race card concept implies that the true racial power in this country lies in the hands of minorities, and that as soon as we “cry racism,” we will then be allowed to get away with anything or to unjustly persecute innocent White people. This is so infrequently the case. We holler “race” because so often it IS about race. While racism should not instill in Black folks a sense of paranoia, we must be constantly diligent and aware of how we are being treated. I do not wish to be color-blind. I am glad that I am aware of the racial climate that I live in, so that I may arm myself accordingly for whatever may come my way. We will never end or even lessen racism so long as we are made to be afraid to challenge it. Thus, I understand that the “race card” that I carry is not some get-out-of-culpability trump card, but instead, a challenging reality that I have been dealt.

Affirmative action is so obviously unconstitutional and racist....but you can't understand that at all, can you...
Blaming race for every time you get you feelings hurt don't cut anymore like it used too.....even white have feelings too....and orientals, and all the rest....

Liberals don't ever have to play any cards. All liberals have to do it to tell the truth about the cards conservatives play, and attempt to play. A "card" is played, in Bridge, in hopes of "winning a trick", in the quest to either make one's bid or to set the opponents. I know you want to portray that some "race card" is being played , by "calling out racism or discrimination", where you would say, none exists. Trust me...It exists. And "in spades" (no pun). You don't want to accept the fact that valid claims of racism and discrimination exist, because it doesn't fit your model, which is the paragon of "white privilege", which says, under any and all circumstances, whites are not to be questioned, challenged, ridiculed, made fun of, or chastised, because they are "always right". How shall I put this. Fuck that shit. No, seriously. Fuck it. This is 2012, mother fucker, and blacks and a whole bunch of whites, Latinos, and Asians ain't having it. Go back and come in, again. Did you ever read The mother fucking Emperor's New mother fucking Clothes? That bitch ran around town, naked as a jaybird, thinking he was all that and several bags of chips, because somebodies who didn't want to hurt his feelings ( and/or, perhaps lose their heads), thought better to lie to him and tell him his "new outfit" was "the shit", when his mother fucking ass had nothing on. It took a child, in a crowd to say the unmitigated truth, that his ass was visible to all, and everybody started laughing because the pretense was over.
That is exactly where your mother fucking ass is today. Fucking clueless, as to the reality. The only mother fucking race cards being played, dealt, cut, shuffled and revealed are the ones in your hand. The only ones with a race problem is your mother fucking ass. We have to live with, shop with, dine with, drive by, sit next to, engage, roll eyes at, cuss out, and fuck up your mf'ing ass , and by that I mean , you racist, poor white trash, don't have a pot to piss in or window to throw it out of bigoted Republican and conservative asses, every day of our lives. And frankly, I'm tired of it. Give me a decent, God fearing, knowing what side of the bread the butter is on, straight up talking and acting white person, any day of the week. That wouldn't be you. Nothing like it. Blame your parents.

The fact is...only liberals, and black liberals in particular can play the race card......no one else has one to play.....whites tryed it with AA and got nowhere....

and the rest of your post is typical whining.....mf this, and mf that.....you're a bitter bigot and don't even know it....thats sad.....
Reality ?....you don't accept it....reality to you is white racist making us stats you can't bare to acknowledge is the true....
You would call guys like Bill Cosby, Uncle Toms when they tell the truth......

If its true, it ain't racist......and the truth will set you free.....
 


You really ought to consider going back to that "other forum"......EVERYBODY wants you to return, EVERYBODY wants you back there.....

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Uh, you don't speak from everybody here .
 
Was George W. Bush's citizenship ever a question?

Has a President ever concealed his birth certificate for no reason, sealed his college records and papers, ignored questions about his foreign travels as a young man. etc.?


What about the politics of Ronald Reagan?

Was the politics of Reagan a secret of some kind?.....Don't get the point of the question....


Or the faith of George H.W. Bush?

Was Bush's faith a question to anyone ?....Did Bush attend a Church where the pastor was overtly anti-American ?....Did Bush attend a Church where the pastor taught a semi-racist set of values ? Did Bush deny a close 20 year association with the pastor of his Church.?


Those issues about Obama didn't appear out nowhere, they were legitimate questions that came up for valid reasons.....and some even today go unanswered....

Lies and bs. Picture book racism.
 
the fact remains is that you're too stubborn and obtuse to realize you're projecting your own racism on to everyone else. you don't love white people, period. You tolerate some that seem to kiss your ass. All the others, you hate. how's that hate working for you?

The truth of the matter is you don't know me. You think you do, based on my postings. You don't. My whites friends and "family", yes family, would kick your mf'ing ass for accusing me of such. Tolerate some that seem to kiss my ass?????????????????? Then that negates the label of racist right there. You can't be racist against folks you tolerate, by definition. Look up the word. And I don't need people to kiss my ass. I have a husband to do that for me, any time I want. And by all accounts, he's whiter than you.
 
One has to start with Dixie's (D's) usual distractive assumption: 'liberals play the race card.' What is the 'race card' and who are these people who play it? What does 'play' mean? Why? Could we say Alan West is playing the 'Communist card?' This playing thing, what is it exactly?

On the surface D's first paragraph is fine, while it misses the growth of hate groups since Obama's election and the tea party's racist overtones shown in their signs, there has been progress, no lynchings today, we won't mention job statistics, jail figures, or poverty.

I'm not going to bother explaining West, a certified nutcase given his communist comments etc, nor Ms King. If there is one thing one learns in life it is that people see the world through a filter that is often unexplainable and so screwed up, reason gets lost.

So on to the meat of D's apology. Yikes, second paragraph problem solved in one sentence. It really doesn't exist? Any need to go on? Boy these liberals are clever they really just want votes, are there really liberals in Congress? Anyone know of one? And consider too these vote wannabes are always online at JPP. Interesting huh. And they're all democrats too. (insert chuckle here)

I had no idea that when I have criticized Obama for his wishy washy tax policy, failure to fight for his job's bills, and the waste of lives in Afghanistan I was being racist. Anyone see the problem. Hold on, solution follows, it's Obama who is stirring the pot. Scared me there for a moment. (insert large ironic laugh here)

Pop psychology to D's rescue: we're really just prejudiced and so long as we remain moderately prejudiced life is good. (insert loud wtf here) While our grandchildren are still young, the idea of prejudice is missing from them - like most things in life P is learned, accepted, and becomes part of the filter of many people - but not all.

Last paragraph - that being the case name names when something is written that uses this race card you see everywhere on JPP, but don't blanket liberals with your usual rhetorical nonsense. Please stop using the liberal card.

An ironic footnote.

"Anti-government sentiment in the United States has risen and fallen in different eras. During the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson, U.S. government programs were expanded; Social Security and Medicare came into being, artists and the arts received federal support, the plight of poor American children was addressed on several fronts, and the Southern system of racial apartheid was gradually but dramatically dismantled. It was this last intervention that roused anti-government feeling in many white Americans. They were particularly outraged when Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy called out the National Guard to enforce racial integration of public educational institutions." Caroline Hamilton (http://www.hnn.us/articles/129715.html)


What is the 'race card'....??? Are you serious ? Its been talked about for the last 30, 40, 50 years and you don't know what they've been talking about all this time...???

How can it be described, its as varied as the weather....

Taheisha gets a speeding ticket from a white cop.....racism....
Then finds drugs in the car......double racism.....
She tries to slap him in the face and he tazes her......triple racism....

News coverage everyday on ever channel.....riots and looting......can't complain because it would be racism


How about "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon".......

Of course, he wouldn't look like the drug using, 17 yo rapist that killed 3 in a drive by.....or the car jacker that beat up a 79 year old white women.

get the point ?
 
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Thats gonna be hard to do....Conservatives aren't that stupid.....Zimmerman's got a good case and the evidence and the law on his side....
but hes still at risk in this climate of pc and blacks threatening violence if they don't get their own way...justice be damned.

That proves that you are perhaps the most retarded member of the forum. The case is decidedly against Zimmerman, and he'll be going to jail, for a long long time.


Climate of pc and blacks threatening violence if they don't get their way, justice be damned???????????????????
I'm sorry but whites have been getting their way since this nation's inception. Whether raping, murdering, beating, torturing blacks, Asians, Hispanics, or anyone non-white, including some Irish, they have rarely had to be accountable for their vile actions or words.
How about let's just suppose that Martin was innocent and walking home from the store and Zimmerman thought he was up to no good, in error, pursued him and killed him.
If it was your son, dead, how would you feel? How would you feel about all of the whites, all of the conservatives, all of the right wing media trying to paint your son as something that he wasn't....a thug, who deserved to die? There is a 50/50 chance that that was the reality. Do you want to bet your life on which version is true?

Remember when OJ Simpson got off...and blacks celebrated, not because it was OJ, but because a guilty black man was acquitted for the first time in memory. Guilty whites have been acquitted forever. And it's commonplace. And oh, didn't the whites want to break up things and exact some justice on unsuspecting innocent blacks, because of it? You damned straight.
The truth of the matter is you don't believe in justice if the defendant is black or a person of color...but you'll make allowances for somebody half white. Pathetic and sad.
 
One has to start with Dixie's (D's) usual distractive assumption: 'liberals play the race card.' What is the 'race card' and who are these people who play it? What does 'play' mean? Why? Could we say Alan West is playing the 'Communist card?' This playing thing, what is it exactly?

On the surface D's first paragraph is fine, while it misses the growth of hate groups since Obama's election and the tea party's racist overtones shown in their signs, there has been progress, no lynchings today, we won't mention job statistics, jail figures, or poverty.

I'm not going to bother explaining West, a certified nutcase given his communist comments etc, nor Ms King. If there is one thing one learns in life it is that people see the world through a filter that is often unexplainable and so screwed up, reason gets lost.

So on to the meat of D's apology. Yikes, second paragraph problem solved in one sentence. It really doesn't exist? Any need to go on? Boy these liberals are clever they really just want votes, are there really liberals in Congress? Anyone know of one? And consider too these vote wannabes are always online at JPP. Interesting huh. And they're all democrats too. (insert chuckle here)

I had no idea that when I have criticized Obama for his wishy washy tax policy, failure to fight for his job's bills, and the waste of lives in Afghanistan I was being racist. Anyone see the problem. Hold on, solution follows, it's Obama who is stirring the pot. Scared me there for a moment. (insert large ironic laugh here)

Pop psychology to D's rescue: we're really just prejudiced and so long as we remain moderately prejudiced life is good. (insert loud wtf here) While our grandchildren are still young, the idea of prejudice is missing from them - like most things in life P is learned, accepted, and becomes part of the filter of many people - but not all.

Last paragraph - that being the case name names when something is written that uses this race card you see everywhere on JPP, but don't blanket liberals with your usual rhetorical nonsense. Please stop using the liberal card.

An ironic footnote.

"Anti-government sentiment in the United States has risen and fallen in different eras. During the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson, U.S. government programs were expanded; Social Security and Medicare came into being, artists and the arts received federal support, the plight of poor American children was addressed on several fronts, and the Southern system of racial apartheid was gradually but dramatically dismantled. It was this last intervention that roused anti-government feeling in many white Americans. They were particularly outraged when Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy called out the National Guard to enforce racial integration of public educational institutions." Caroline Hamilton (http://www.hnn.us/articles/129715.html)

God love you Midcan. Kudos.
 
GatorFool likes everything about you Poet......you make friends so easily....
Well lets parse this post that GatorFool likes so much.....




The fact is...only liberals, and black liberals in particular can play the race card......no one else has one to play.....whites tryed it with AA and got nowhere....

and the rest of your post is typical whining.....mf this, and mf that.....you're a bitter bigot and don't even know it....thats sad.....
Reality ?....you don't accept it....reality to you is white racist making us stats you can't bare to acknowledge is the true....
You would call guys like Bill Cosby, Uncle Toms when they tell the truth......

If its true, it ain't racist......and the truth will set you free.....

BS. All of it. You don't understand shit. And you don't care to understand, which makes you worthless.
 
Wow, and I thought the threads about Ann Romney were stupid. I only got to page four of this and then gave up. Too much stupidity can't be good for you.

sorry, but it's a free country.....we can't keep the liberals from posting just to make you happier....
 
The truth of the matter is you don't know me. You think you do, based on my postings. You don't. My whites friends and "family", yes family, would kick your mf'ing ass for accusing me of such. Tolerate some that seem to kiss my ass?????????????????? Then that negates the label of racist right there. You can't be racist against folks you tolerate, by definition. Look up the word. And I don't need people to kiss my ass. I have a husband to do that for me, any time I want. And by all accounts, he's whiter than you.
i know enough of you to know you're full of shit and a racist. your posts speak volumes about it. your 'peeps' would TRY to kick my ass. that's the end of it.
 
so you're pissed that people are judging you based upon what you post here.......think about that a minute....

I'm not pissed. Folks think they have me pegged, and they don't, due to their own misconceptions and stupidity. The smart people get me....you don't get me, hence the conclusion I drew a long time ago. You're stupid.
 
I'm not pissed. Folks think they have me pegged, and they don't, due to their own misconceptions and stupidity. The smart people get me....you don't get me, hence the conclusion I drew a long time ago. You're stupid.
'getting' you is easy based on your racist rants and posts. Those that have taken a shine to you and support you are every bit as racist as you.
 
Pop psychology to D's rescue: we're really just prejudiced and so long as we remain moderately prejudiced life is good. (insert loud wtf here) While our grandchildren are still young, the idea of prejudice is missing from them - like most things in life P is learned, accepted, and becomes part of the filter of many people - but not all.

Nope. ALL. It is part of what makes us human. Yes, prejudice is learned, just as fear is learned. I made no distinction about "moderately prejudiced" that is something you want to INFER into my commentary. Again, it is absolutely normal for every person to have prejudices, it is when those prejudices become bigoted and based on ignorance or intolerance, they become racist prejudice. Doesn't matter if it's moderate or not.

Now here is the interesting thing about what I believe makes Liberals think they have some kind of racial hubris. You reveal it in your response that you believe not all people have prejudices. Liberals have as much, if not MORE prejudice than their republican counterparts, they just mask their prejudices with political correctness, to try and give the perception they have no prejudices. It is impossible to live your life to adulthood and not develop some prejudices. Again, we need to clarify that many liberals view "prejudice" to mean the exact same thing as "racist." They are two entirely different things, as I have articulated. Prejudices don't have to be race-based at all, in fact, most of the time they aren't. When prejudices do involve race, if they are developed out of bigoted intolerance and ignorance, they are racist prejudices.
 
'getting' you is easy based on your racist rants and posts. Those that have taken a shine to you and support you are every bit as racist as you.

Where is the proof of that? You just can't say anything and expect to get away with it. Now you've pissed off some white people. I'm going to go pop popcorn. I hope you realize how retarded you appear.
 
Where is the proof of that? You just can't say anything and expect to get away with it. Now you've pissed off some white people. I'm going to go pop popcorn. I hope you realize how retarded you appear.
fuck you, racist. your posts are proof of that, and so are theirs. if they don't like the truth of their substance, that is their problem, not mine. you're done getting away with calling everyone a racist with no proof at all and I will continue to call you a racist for every post you make here
 
fuck you, racist. your posts are proof of that, and so are theirs. if they don't like the truth of their substance, that is their problem, not mine. you're done getting away with calling everyone a racist with no proof at all and I will continue to call you a racist for every post you make here

Good to know...I have you on ignore, though I lift your ban from time to time...no more. Tea Party Scum. DumberThanMost.
 
Good to know...I have you on ignore, though I lift your ban from time to time...no more. Tea Party Scum. DumberThanMost.
no problem, racist. my labeling you a racist will be for the rest of the board anyway. we already know you think that calling anyone a racist without proof is just pointing out the truth, unless it's someone calling you a racist without proof.
 
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