Using the race card doesn't mean that one's race actually matters...
As Obama Presidential Center comes closer to reality, tensions on race, class surface
When Bronwyn Nichols Lodato began pushing to prevent a portion of Chicago’s Midway Plaisance from being developed into a parking garage by the Obama Foundation, she never expected to be criticized as anti-black.
After all, she is an African-American woman who has lived in Hyde Park for more than a decade and is sensitive to both the city’s racial tensions and the needs of her neighbors.
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“Increasingly folks who are in favor of the Obama Center have stood up at meetings and sent out emails saying anyone who disagrees or asks questions — they must be white, they must not care about black people and they must not care about economic development on the South Side,” said Irizarry, who is Hispanic. “It’s not neatly broken down by black and white or neatly broken down by class. To make it all about race is inappropriate — that’s not what Obama stood for. There needs to be more nuance.”
These people are obviously unfamiliar with how the race card works - and it is exactly what Obama stood for.
It is not about race. It is about expediency.
It is about pulling out the race card in order to gain leverage over an opponent. Now that leverage can be self-applied, where the opponent just backs away because they don't want to appear to be a racist... or it is applied by those in the world of social justice who apply outside pressure on the opponent to the point where life is totally uncomfortable until they relent.
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