Playing the "race card"

[Noelegy]

"I'm sorry, your race card has been rejected. Do you have some other form of entitlement?"

Brilliant...Utterly brilliant.

[ForestDragon]

I can't take credit for that one; it was somebody's signature on one of my mother's nursing boards (Like Customers Suck! except dedicated to nurses and others in medical-related professions who aren't doctors). It just came to mind while I was reading this thread.

[blas]

I can't stand when people act like that. I've been tempted before, upon hearing the ever so common "Yous only doin dis cuz I'm black!" (can't say I've had the race card pulled on me, but I've heard it pulled towards others), to reply with:

*clears throat*

"If you haven't noticed, you are no longer under a civil rights struggle. Since you seem to believe that we're still living in 1964, you are more than welcome to think that way and stay in your mental time machine, but the rest of us are in 2007 and you are welcome to join us when you accept that."

[Barefootgirl]

I wanna pull the race card! Just once! I'm so white I'm part polar bear

You could try going to Africa, or India, or practically any part of the world east of Suez...

There is a comedy character called Ali G, who is a white kid pretending to be a black ghetto "gangsta" (done by the same person who played Borat) . I have it on good authority that as soon as his "Is it cos I is black?" catchphrase became commonplace, the number of people "pulling the race card" at one particualr large mobile phone operator fell by about 80%. Probably becasue the reps laughed at them...

[zzapp the witch]

I have always been intrigued by the motives behind pulling the race card, and you can't escape it, even if you are the same race as the person pulling it. They just don't call you a racist, they call you a sellout or somesuch.


PS I demand respect because I am a polka dot person!

[Discourtesy Clerk]

You could try going to Africa, or India, or practically any part of the world east of Suez...

There is a comedy character called Ali G, who is a white kid pretending to be a black ghetto "gangsta" (done by the same person who played Borat) . I have it on good authority that as soon as his "Is it cos I is black?" catchphrase became commonplace, the number of people "pulling the race card" at one particualr large mobile phone operator fell by about 80%. Probably becasue the reps laughed at them...

Ali G is hilarious. Funnier than Borat, I think. He makes me giggle.

On topic...I don't recall ever having been called racist or had the race card pulled against me personally (speaking Spanish helps, really), however I have been confused for homophobic. By homophobes. I had a bumper sticker that said "Down With Homophobia," and apparently these twats' attention span only let them read up to "homo-". Resulting in their asking, "So does that mean you hate gay people?"

"No. It means I hate idiots. I'm a dyke, by the way. Piss off."



Damned teenagers.

[Broomjockey]

From then on I made sure my hand always brushed against theirs so they wouldn't think that.

Nothing against anyone, but I HATE it when people touch me in situations like that, even brushing touches. I've always disliked it. When I was little, I used to say "OUCH!" everytime someone touched me, just so they'd stop.

I have no idea why, but it just bugs me when random people I don't know invade my space like that. I'm quirky. Or maybe disturbed. Or OCD. I dunno, just saying, there's people like me out there, and at least one is gonna be an SC about it. *shudders at the thought* So you're pretty much outta luck either way.

[MadMike]

The first example I ever saw of the "race card" being played was by Eddie Murphy's character in the first Beverly Hills Cop movie, when he tried to get a room at a place that was completely booked "....'cause they don't allow no ners here!"

Back then, I was still quite naive, and couldn't imagine anyone doing that sort of thing in real life. That innocence came crashing down as soon as I started retail and found out just how sucky people can be.