Define "race card". What is the benefit of a white man (olberman) to play the race card?

I sure don't see how it benefits Obama to 'play' it. His major problem has been white resentment. In fact, I don't know anyone outside of media figureheads that benefit from accusing people of racism when it's unwarranted.

Yeah bad title. I'm just upset that the media played the race card.
I just think the world was a better place before Olbermann played the race card.


anyhow netrunner posted "the video" on this:
http://www.videosift.com/video/President-Carter-Derides-Racist-Tone-Against-Obama

Funny how some Congressman can play the race card and get a free ride. Read the transcript.


Rachel Brown: I think the Administration is missing something in these town hall meetings, which is, that it's not just one group. The economy is collapsing. We have 30% real unemployment. Forty-eight states cannot balance their budgets and they are cutting programs to the bone. This is the context under which the Obama Administration says we need health-care reform—

Barney Frank: Well, I'll tell ya—

Brown: I'm not done. The reason why, is because they say we need to limit Medicare expenditures in order to do that, in order to reduce the deficit. That's the origin of this policy. This is the T4 policy, the Hitler policy in 1939, when he said certain lives are not worth living; certain people, we should not spend the money to keep them alive. Which is exactly what Ezekiel Emanuel has said.

So, my question to you is, one, since this policy is already on its way out—it already has been defeated by LaRouche—my question to you is: Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has expressly supported this policy? Why are you supporting it?

Frank: When you ask me that question, I am going to revert to my ethnic heritage, and answer your question with a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?

Brown: [Inaudible; apparently asks Frank to answer the question.]

Frank: You want me to answer the question? [visibly and audibly enraged; lisp more pronounced:] Yes, you stand there with a picture of the President defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis. My answer to you is, as I said before: It is a tribute to the First Amendment, that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.

Brown: [Inaudible.]

Frank: Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to have a conversation with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

Until the police are in your home disrespecting you, and until the police arrest you for not kowtowing, you will always take their side. You think the police are there to serve you, and to keep others in their place. I don't know anyone who would tolerate this behavior of the police in their own home.

"Race Card"="minorities complaining about things that they should shut up about"

I don't think he is intentionally being racist.

I believe what he is referring to is the political atmosphere surrounding the issue. That being black shouldn't give you a "pass".

As members of a community, we stand up to make the area our families live, work and play in as safe and respectable as possible. We don't litter on the ground, we don't swear when children are around, we don't aim to intimidate others and so on.

If we see a white person doing something offensive, being a public nuisance, acting in a way that is menacing to us or our children, we say something.

Now, if those same offenders are racially different, in this case black, it is no longer becoming socially correct to point them out. If we do, the race card is played! What this man is saying, is that black people need to hold themselves to the same standards as any other citizen on the street. Now, this is not aimed at people who are great people, it's aimed at people who use race as an excuse to their actions.

An an example:
My wife worked at a Union job in a hospital. There was a woman there, of East Indian decent. She didn't do her work, she called in sick constantly, sometimes never showed up to work, she was rude to all other workers and never finished any task that was given to her. When she was reprimanded and put on warning, she put a grievance with the union that it was race motivated and when it got so bad that she thought she would loose her job, she had the union re-assign her to a different department. The problem was, she had already transfered from seven other departments with the same complaints against her and in every case she claimed racism.

Because she claimed racism, even the Union was afraid to admit that she was a bad seed in the workplace and needed to be let go. No one wants to be labeled a racist and we go to great lengths to protect ourselves from that label. Even when it means that we let people get away with things they shouldn't just because they claim racism.

The Ironic part here is now I have to say "I am not a racist" just to protect myself. I love people of all colours and religious backgrounds because I find them amazingly interesting. I have no inherited cultural background myself so I am very envious of people that have these backgrounds and customs.
(EDIT: at he same time, I never put one race above or below another. I couldn't care less about the skin colour, when I talk about cultural backgrounds, I am also referring to Scottish, Irish, Ukrainian, French etc.)

What I shouldn't have to do is fear that if someone is doing something wrong, and I am in the position to do something about it, that I get called a racist for my actions. People need to hold themselves accountable and not use the "Race" card as an excuse for their actions!

Whoa Whoa Whoa.....the only person talking about race is you rougy....it seems like you are desperately trying to throw in the race card like you have some kind of race chip on your shoulder And I'm going to venture a guess....tell me if I'm wrong.

"I guess Israel must have some significant business interests with the Kurds our you wouldn't think twice about them. They're the wrong race for you."

You're a freakin' conspiracy theorist hahahahahah. The Jews are running the world OH NO!!!!! Please, please answer me this, "Who is responsible for 9/11?" I'd give 10/1 odds that you think that our government had something to do with it. HAHAHAHAHAHAH *grips sides in pain from laughing too hard*. Go buy some more baked beans, SPAM and go crawl under your bunker you looney ape you. What a maroon...what a nincompoop.

Sheesh, if ida known I was getting into it with one of your kind (uh oh...I said your kind but before you get excited I'm not talking about "race" but consp. theorists) I would have given up a long time ago. Its like arguing with Chicken Little. The sky is NOT, I repeat, NOT falling. Just try not to get too excited militia-man.

'nuff said. You'll be happy to know this is my last comment so get your jollies in and then watch out for dem der Jews, especially the Hasidic ones.....I hear they're especially conspirational and world-dominating. No point in debating with an irrational loon. BTW stick to conspiracy theories....your poetry curdled the milk in my coffee.

>> ^xxovercastxx:
Did a rich, white republican really just try to play the race card?


You know what? I think he did!

Did a rich, white republican really just try to play the race card?

>> ^longde:
Furthermore, people who are protesting this incident are not blaming white people in general for this tragedy, they are trying to hold one white cop accountable based on the known facts. Your hyperbole doesn't help, but it certainly reveals your bias.


I'm not trying to defend the cop, he didn't do his job properly and he murdered an innocent man and he should be made to pay for it. And to insinuate that I am some kind of racist is one of the biggest insults I can imagine. Maybe I have a different point of view, but that's because I come from a place that racism is so incredibly rare.

I just find it so odd that it seems like every week Al Sharpton is on the news with a new person to label as a racist or with a new issue that he thinks is specifically designed to hurt black people. I just don't get it.

But then again, I also find it insane and disgusting that conservatives in America think that Sotomayor might be a bad choice as a Supreme Court justice because she is Hispanic and likes Hispanic food.

The simple fact of the matter is that the United States will continue to be pitied by the rest of the world until you can sort out this constant use of the race card.

I think what people really need to talk about is what IS racism. This guy has great intentions with this argument but a lot of people don't understand what racism is.

A lot of times too many people out there just play the "race card" whenever someone says something they disagree with. That is an issue I feel that needs just as much tackling because it truly takes away from this "talk" in the first place.

WP and QM can sqwak all they want about how awesome it is to torture (brown) people. But they are in the very very slim minority.

Is anyone still falling for this liberal-commie race card BULLSHIT? Sorry, dawg, "Black" President. No more racism! But for the record, there are not a few Chinese spies I would also love to see strapped to the board...but the chi-comms just don't have the time, they're to busy setting up sweetheart deals for the spouse-owned companies of scum like Diane Feinstink.

I didn't enjoy watching people jump to their deaths off the WTC, and if some piece of excrement whose humanity ended the day he decided killing innocents would futher "THE CAUSE" gets a gallon of water up his nose to disclose the next attack, I'll be the first to crank out the garden hose.

Some "experts" claim torture never works, some say it DOES work. Even as Obamarx further weakens national security in his attempt to revive Bush Derangement Syndrome by releasing classified documents, large sections of text are blacked out. Could it be "torture" actually worked to prevent some further attacks?

Don't look to a lawless cult of personality like Obama for truth, here or anywhere else.

It's the same modus operandi as the global warmist hoaxers: keep the data that supports the pre-made conclusion, throw the rest out.

Pacifism is moral cowardice. Tell your kollij perfessers!

>> ^Deano:
Ha ha! The Brummie accent works so well here Good on him.
However section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 doesn't specifically mention photographers and it's argued by some that section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 necessarily covered the same area. The worst problem is that the government is quite happy to allow the police to interpret bad legislation on the ground to whatever ends they like.
The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/12/photographers-anti-terro
r-laws, reports that "A spokeswoman for the Home Office said the law was not specifically intended for photographers and concerns about how it would be used were speculative. It would be the job of the police and the courts to interpret the law." So an unpleasant incident with the cops may go to court (unlikely in most cases), well after the damage to civil liberties and our relationship with the police has been done.
It's truly remarkable what changes have occurred thanks to New Labour.


Nothing to do with new labour. It's just the pile of shit that happens to be in power. Rather than the pile of shit that isn't in power. Either way we'd be detecting the same scent.

>> ^transporter:
this is not harassment, this is boring...white people need to re-evaluate their definition of harassment


woot race war!!!!! good job playing the race card mate!

Oh and no, MGR, he can film whoever he likes - that's HIS business.

>> ^quantumushroom:
tl;dfw
More race card sh;t.
Sane person: And that's why I think Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax will prolong any recession.
Liberal: You just wanna kill people with BROWN skin! Hate crime!
Sane person: Remember to vote November 5th.


Only a fuckstick like you would take a parody that exposes the shallowness of racism and equate it with some invisible phantom robbing you of your money.

"What does this say about America?"

Hmmmm, that we elected an anti-American Socialist who wants to bankrupt our coal plants and create a civilian military force that's as well funded as our regular military? Ya, that about sums it up...

Upvote for the fake tears from Jesse Jackson, who's been a poker star for years (the Race Card always beats a flush).

^No overt examples, though? No quote or reference to speak of? No link?

If Jackson, Sharpton, & Wright can be accused of playing the race card, then O'Reilly, Rove, and McCain can be accused to wielding white privilege. The reality is that race and class exist and that inherent differences need to be addressed. Just how, and with what degree of sensitivity, tends to become a matter of political will and opportunity.

As for Hillary, I'm still wondering what, specifically, you're referring to.