Please read the entire question: What is the RACE card?

Question

People often accuse black people of using the race card. I actually find it kind of annoying. I have a pretty decent job and have a pretty decent education, but I still have received more then my fair share of racism in this world. Just because I'm no longer the poorest of the poor it doesn't mean I was given fair chances. Whenever a black person says something about an racist act, people tend to think their lying or call them reverse racist. Do people really think racism no longer exist in the U.S.? Do people really think black people are now treated equally? They call us over sensitive about being treated as criminals, drug addicts, and whores everyday. I wouldn't exactly call that being sensitive when you don't give off that type of vibe. It's hurful and you just can't stop people from being hurt about it. People often say stop talking about it. Do they really think that's the thing to make it go away? I mean, maybe we do need to talk about it and get it all out in the open.

I'm sorry. I don't think some of your are getting what i'm saying. To me the race card doesn't exist. Okay if I go into a store and the clerk follows me around thinking I'm going to steal and every white person in the store is left on their own to tend to their shopping in peace and I mention this to management. They may give me a coupon, my purchase free, or a free item. Which is miniscule compared to the offense which is demonstrated. Then someone else would see it and say. OH, she's playing the race card. I'm sorry, but that's not playing the race card. That's making a complaint about an offense and a manager who is trying to make amends. If a clerk is just rude to a white customer and they get a free item or something. It's like people will say oh she deserves that for her trouble. Well don't I deserve something for my trouble. Not saying...Just gimme gimme gimme becuse i'm black, but come on someone has to see my point.

BonnyRogue:
I actually think you have never lived in these "ghetto" neighborhoods. If you did you would have a different view of the peole who are there. There are people SOME people who are ignorant and on drugs, but it isn't even the majority of the people. Get over it. Well maybe you haven't experienced as much racism as others, but it still does happen OFTEN. Our educational system keeps many black people from moving further in life and some people can't always GET OUT. As far as...You know what, I'm not even going to get into this with you because it's obvious you have a problem with black people anyway. I've seen many of your post and you are one of those self hating blacks. Always spouting black people are doing it to themselves, blah blah blah...Well last time I checked crime and drugs were down in black communities and employment was up. Drugs, gangs and sexual promiscuity was up in middles classed white areas. So before you condemn peole at least get your facts right.

Answer 1

To use the term is often used as a deliberate crack by those that have little patience for race issues of any kind, they just want to punish the one who brings it up.

Answer 2

I have read the entire question. I do believe that racism still exists and I actually can't believe it. I have been out of the country for the past ten years and I was young when I left, so I was in shock when I moved back to the states to see that people still think of blacks like we still have slavery, however that is not everyone. Everyone that I associate with are not racists, because I choose for it to be that way. I will not hang out with a racist, I can not tolerate ignorance. I have also seen reverse racism though. I have seen a very qualified man with seniority get pushed over because an equally qualified black man with out seniority had an extra point or two from Affirmative Action.

Also, I HAVE lived in the ghetto for a year and the majority of people were into the drugs and and such. I do believe that everyone has a fair shot at life and you have to make that conscious decision to make it a better one. Everyone has a hard life, some more than others, but they are all given a fair shot.

Answer 3

As a white female, I'm sorry to say I have been treated pretty horribly by every black female I have ever met. Coincidence? I don't think so although I tried to believe that for a long time.
Statistically, the facts are not good for black people. This despite affirmative action. I don't get it. I would like to see us all get along but you're right it won't happen anytime soon. The "race" card is what comes up anytime something catastrophic happens-- OJs trial; New Orleans (tragic, yes); the voting incident in Florida between Bush and Gore. It gets old!
And what about the fact that black "heroes" are so obviously racist? Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton-- they're despicable and yet so highly revered by most of the black race.

Answer 4

The race card is not about racism. It is using your race to either get a leg up or as an excuse. For instance I invited a friend who was african-american to go hiking and camping with me one weekend and she told me, "Black people don't do that. We don't go out camping and crap like that." That was pulling the race card. Or I have had some asian friends say, "Well the reason I am in a good school is because I am asain." I guess implying that asain culture pushes their children more than other cultures. This is pulling the race card. Its not racism because the people who use it are usually speaking about themselves. I do not think that your race should be an excuse or a reason that you can or can't do something. The worst line though is when someone says, "Your just treating me this way because I am _____" That is probably the worst and used the most often. Whether for good or bad, using the race card is just not cool.

Answer 5

My father (who is white) often gets stopped by the police when he is getting off the turnpike coming home from work. (He works nights, so he is coming home around 3 AM.) That is called a "routine check". And it has happened more than once to him. However, I hear black and Hispanic people complaining about how they are stopped )similar circumstances) and then saying they were pulled over "for being black" or "for being Puerto Rican". Why is it a "routine check" when it is my father, but "profiling" when it is someone that is not white? That is playing the race card.

I too have been followed in stores (again, I am white) simply because security thought I "dressed like a criminal" because I was wearing jeans that fit, a nice top, and a leather jacket. Why can't I cry " foul" over it but a black person can? Again, that is the race card.

Answer 6

Not to be disrespectful, but in the USA, we have created a new religion called politically correct. In this religion, if you are any other color than white, you can say or do anything against whites or any other race and get a pass. If you are white, you cannot say anything negative about any other race without getting slammed down hard and called a racist. In this religion called liberal politically correctness, white people are considered the devil. They are now blamed for everything that ever happened to anyone of color throughout history and some history textbooks are being rewritten to prove it.

So "yes", racism does exist still in the good ole USA. It's everyone else against the evil white devils because that's what the news media and the democratic party tell you!

Answer 7

I agree that the 'race card' just means using race as an excuse for whatever problem is being addressed. Yes, all races have their problems. But most real problems stem not from skin color, but from cultural beliefs. Black people think they are being put upon by whites, but the truth is that their own culture has betrayed them. Where are the black fathers? Why aren't the crack dealers being driven out of the neighborhood? Why aren't the young black girls being protected rather than being allowed to roam the streets selling a 'good time'? White people aren't doing that to you, your own people are. Stop believing the lying liberals who have been promising to 'fix' you with welfare for the last 50 years! Welfare is true slavery, and those who receive it will never try to better themselves as long as the incentive is being withheld. You have succeeded in life. Teach others now, how to do the same, and you will have done mankind a true service.

Answer 8

I am from a 98 % black metrotropolis, and this is addressed a little differently in the city--but on the outskirts where the caucasian population resides, the differences get more distinct.
Am thinking the race card is a sort of excuse of a minority to get what one wants, or when it's convenient to the situation.
Maybe like stereo-typing. One example might be:
A cop pulls over a black driver for speeding, and the driver says, you pulled me over because I'm black, and the cop has to say, no, I pulled you over because you were driving 22 miles over the designated speed limit!
The driver pulled the race card to use as an upper hand of intimidation to save him from his driving mistake.
I also think a lot of folks use cliches and expressions and idioms that they don't really understand.
Lack of education, to be sure, but also laziness of the lips!
It is easier to sound clever using something someone else said, than to think an original thought.
I can only aplogize for all the idiots out there that offend others.
It is wearying to my soul.

Answer 9

I've had my fair share of people accusing me of pulling the race card. I really think that people who aren't black cant even say anything about being racist. I am still discriminated against because of the color of my skin. I still get the "you act white" just because I speak proper english and don't act ghetto. Until that stops, there will always be racisim and "race cards" pulled. I'ts easy for white people to say "get over it" or "color shouldn't matter" because they don't have to deal with the things minorites have to deal with. On the flip side, there are black people, peurto ricans and other minorites that are racist against whites. But does that stop white people from succeeding? No. White people have the power, so they have the better opportiunites. I'm not saying all white people are successful, I'm just saying there is nothing hindering or oppressing them. This is why I think some white people don't even know the definition of racism.

Answer 10

He does not. he's 0.5 black and that quickly inspires racial subject concerns in the minds of many human beings while they see him. i'm advantageous many African-human beings become responsive to with him because of the fact he's a clever, powerful individual and it in all hazard makes many sense stable that he has of venture to grow to be president. Why does not it pondering each and all of the detrimental racial stereotypes with which blacks contend. Then there will be whites and others which will quickly dislike him because of the fact he's a factor black. this is how this is, some human beings only will hate because of the fact of his racial profile. Then there are the rest individuals who can see previous the colour of a individual's epidermis and decide however if or no longer they could desire to be president based upon their skills and character. some whites would be happy to vote for a black guy and many have already finished so in the primaries. Altogether, this is not that Obama is taking part in the race card (no person cites examples of him doing that.) the rest individuals are taking part in it.

Answer 11

I love this!!

I absolutely agree with you. Some people do not believe racism exist because no one is willing to challenge WHY minority schools have to do with substandard equipment. Why do minority students get such a low educational quality compared to white and even Asian students. Why do we need out of district busing to get out kids to good schools, why cant are school be on par to or even better than predominately white school, why does no one want to bus into out schools!?
when I read the type of questions geared towards blacks on silly and disgusting topics, I ask " why do we get these kinds of questions?". When I hear people say there is no point to black history month, then I know we are not doing our job. Its time to leave the rap $h!t behind and start looking at out state from a whole, not partial view.
The one thing I will never get over is the educational system. I will continue to fight on the basis that our schools need more and will see that they get more. If I could change any one thing about black America and everything else would stay the same, I would choose education. Resources would be flowing into our schools like hell, because the kids are precious and deserve a decent place to call school. Nothing else needs to be changed, simply because an inside change ( such as education) is more than enough to make a dramatic outside change.

I'm black , I get treated as such. No one understand because no one is will to question and change how I get treated.

"If I didn't see it, and you seem kinda okay, then it doesn't really exist" - race relations today.