Why do some white people play the race card?

Question

Some white people on Yahoo Answers always complain about other races playing the race card, and yet some of us play the race card also.

When white people complain about affirmative action, they are playing the race card. You're saying that you didn't get the job because you're white.

Answer 1

Finally someone speaks the truth! thanks so much for posting this!

Answer 2

"Playing the race card" is, unfortunately, a part of life. Employers do it when they decide who to hire (or fire), universities when they decide who gets a scholarship, police officers when they pull someone over. The only way to get away from "playing the race card" is to ignore it. To look past someone's skin into their hearts and see who they really are. Someone who attempts to use their race as an excuse for why they didn't get something they wanted (a job, a scholarship, a "not guilty" verdict) would have found something else to blame it on, no matter what color their skin was.

To answer your question then, some people (not just white people) "play the race card" because they don't want to take responsibility for their own actions. If a person discriminates against them, it can't be their fault.

Answer 3

Let's look at Affirmative Action from a different perspective. Has it helped African Americans? They are ensured jobs, not because of skill (although hopefully, not lacking it) but rather, through skin color. This is inherently racist, because that is what the whole things is based upon. The real trick here though is that it is all predicated upon the assumption that blacks cannot succeed on their own merit. It's essentially a hand-out of a sort, and whenever there is a handout, there is someone taking it, which makes of people servants. It's as bad for black people as white people. We need to level the playing field for everybody. No one gets a handout. Everyone must rise up on their own merits.

Answer 4

I would not entirely agree...
Affirmative action can, and has, caused better qualified white people to not get the job, the acceptance, etc. - and that can be a legitimate problem even though it is still a necessary program overall.
You are right - the "race card" is not a reasonable or valid argument, and is still practiced far too much.

Answer 5

People use the race card to try and get other peole uncomfortable or to throw them off. Some people dont want to continue an argument or discussion as soon as someone plays the race card because you might say something insulting or you will be insulted

Answer 6

Everyone does. If a white person complains about not getting a job due to affirmative action, they aren't playing the race card, it was played on them., they were trumped. But it goes both ways.

Answer 7

I don't like affirmative action because it's racial discrimination written directly into our laws. I can't point to a job I haven't gotten because of it, but that doesn't make it right.

But even if someone does-- should whites be the one race that isn't allowed to play the race card? Everyone else does it every day.

Answer 8

No group is exempt from playing the race card. Affirmative action is racist in itsself. Employers should hire on qualifications regardless of skin color. Hiring based on racial quotas does no one any good. Ward Connerly is a champion of this concept and has spoken quite eloquently on this issue.

'Nuff said?

Answer 9

I suppose some "white people" use the race card for the same reason people who aren't "white" use the race card.

Answer 10

Hmmm, I got 21. I love these race cards. Pay up.

Answer 11

White people call a Club a Club, and a Diamond a Diamond, and a Heart a Heart, and a _____ _ _____. That's why!