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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2342
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 10:55 am: | 
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Why do we let these degenerates dictate the terms of the debate?
Now accusations of racism are met with the term "Playing the race card" as though this is some kind of game.
Well the last time I looked neither I nor any other black person has any kind of card to play that can get them over.
And I look and Black people themselves use the term.
There IS no hope! |
Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 2713
Registered: 07-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 12:54 pm: |
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I quoted ("") the term purely to make a point on another thread--but I do hear where you are coming from, and I totally agree. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4636
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 01:00 pm: |
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It is some kind of a game! It's a game of buzz words and rhetoric. Surely you don't think that the race debate in this country isn't about strategizing and attempting to put one's oppponet at a disadvantage. And so it goes. |
Femrenoir
Regular Poster
Username: Femrenoir
Post Number: 44
Registered: 05-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 01:38 pm: |
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Yes, and the rules of the game keep changing.
New rule: say the words 'race card', and all of the injustices your opponent has and will endure become inconsequential in any game scenario. And so it goes. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 4743
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 02:18 pm: |
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Chris,
Maybe Black foks should counter "race card" with the "White man card", "White woman card", "Rich daddy & trustfund baby card", etc. |
Moonsigns
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 1194
Registered: 07-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 06:03 pm: |
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Interesting point, Abm. |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 265
Registered: 10-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 06:38 pm: |
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"Well the last time I looked neither I nor any other black person has any kind of card to play that can get them over.
That's not true. I've seen it happen many times. |
Shemika
Veteran Poster
Username: Shemika
Post Number: 74
Registered: 02-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 06:40 pm: |
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The entire concept of race was created by whites and for the benefit of whites. They are the ones who have been playing the "race card" for socioeconomic gain, and to assign value to themselves and others based upon their own likeness all along. (A god complex) They made up the rules and they are the benefactors. Part of this tendency to accuse blacks of everything is designed to conceal their own cruelites by projecting them onto their victims. |
Yvettep
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1063
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 08:31 pm: |
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I am fascinated by this whole phenomenon and wrote about it a while back here http://blog.lib.umn.edu/perry032/impossible/racial_gamesmanship.html. FWIT, I have started describing folks who make that claim as playing the 'playing the race card' card! |
Femrenoir
Regular Poster
Username: Femrenoir
Post Number: 47
Registered: 05-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 09:18 pm: |
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That's a good one, you have to call them on what they are doing at the time! |
Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 2721
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 10:07 am: |
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You know.
You can say the same thing about the phrase "light skin v. dark skin."
Issues concerning colorism are not games either. They're not the things you saw in School Daze. Thousands of victims did not suffer in Katrina because of some school yard game. Yet people go around using the phrase "light skin v. dark skin" as "buzz words" to "put one's opponent at a disadvantage" and to render all injustices endured inconsequential. And so it goes.
We have had it done to us. And now we are doing it to each other.
There IS no hope!
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Nels
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Nels
Post Number: 411
Registered: 07-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 02:02 pm: |
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The race card is a tool of convenience, not one of merit. |
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