April 6, 2006
Shuffling the Race Card
Pandagon on America's favorite card game:
I love the myth of the Race Card. According to racists, being non-white is a free pass that will get you any and everything your heart desires. By their reckoning, therefore, black people, who can have everything they could possibly want, live in poverty at higher rates, have less political power, and a shorter life span. But they get to make white people feel guilty, which white racists can only do by being horribly racist assholes and make the rest of us have guilt by association. And that’s the only power the racists apparently want.
Posted by jsmooth995 at April 6, 2006 1:55 AM
lol, I definitely need to get myself one of these "race cards". Maybe it'll get me some damn reparations.
The first time I heard of this supposed card was during the O.J. Simpson trial. Johnny Cochran was supposed to have used it to set OJ free or something....couldn't have possible been the evidence huh?? Since we all know that all black men are guilty until proven innocent....
Oops!! Did I just play a card myself?? Or is it just plain ole hard truth??
Posted by: Mase at April 6, 2006 10:22 AM
The only card O.J.'s defense played was the *class* card. Rich people have a lot more leeway, behaviorally, than poor people, as they can afford a more, shall we say, comprehensive defense. Skin pigmentation has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I sometimes wonder if people of wealth and power aren't insanely pleased by using race as a distraction from genuine class differences.
Posted by: mns at April 6, 2006 12:39 PM
yo im white, i live in japan, went to school with 50 different nationalities, and big far on the hiphop music. the only color that really matters is green
Posted by: sean at April 11, 2006 9:39 AM
