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Originally posted by Phasad1913
I think the phrase "playing the race card" in and of itself is insenstive and is indicative of the larger problem of dismissal of race related issues that are important to us and not to others. When I hear people say "so and so are playing the race card" it bothers me becasue who are they to say, as I assume they mean, that a person's perception that race is the central issue of a particular situation is less than valid or real? That by itself highlights the oblivion and nonchalance that a lot of people who have the luxury of a larger population with which THEY identify relative to our smaller population with often a smaller voice live in.
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I'm sincerely sorry to have offended you. I was seeing red after the thread about the Congressman, and that was the first phrase I thought to use. Obviously, I should have thought a little harder.
I think it's a disgrace that ANY politician uses his or her power to save his or her things, and hangs the rest of the population out to dry. I think that Susan Smith is a waste of DNA, and photos of the lake where she drowned her children should be in her cell, not photos of her precious children. She needed a scapegoat, and chose the one which would rile the locals the most. And as for OJ, I feel that he's cupable to some extent (if not completely), but I also think that Nicole's family used his connections to the max.
I place nurses aides in peoples' homes. If I had a dime for every time I've heard, "I'm not a racist, but my mother..." I could retire tomorrow. I've heard things that have so appalled me, I've called the authorities.
Yet, I love how some of these same people just
love Oprah, Montel, and the athlete of the moment! It's really time that the hypocrisy ends.