Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Candace Owens, director of communications for Turning Point USA, attempted to disprove the existence of racism Friday during her CPAC remarks by explaining that she herself has never been a slave. “Stop selling us our own oppression,” she said. “Stop taking away our self-confidence by telling us that we can’t because of racism, because of slavery. I've never been a slave in this country.” https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/ #whytheracecardisplayed

A white lady in Attleboro, MA calls cop on a Black man because... his dog humped her dog in a dog park and he wouldn’t leave when she demanded. Whytheracecardisplay.com #whytheracecardisplayed #whiteculture

A math teacher at #PortCharlotteHighSchool  was forced by the school to take down her  #ColinKaepernick   #BlackHistoryMonth decoration after two boys at the school complained to their parents and called it offensive.  #Florida

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WHITES AREN'T THE ONLY RACISTS  Whytheracecardisplayed.com #whytheracecardisplayed #asian   #latino   #gay

A congressman plays the ‘black friend’ card, showing that age-old racist attitudes persist In his defiant declaration this week that he is not racist, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) used several tired tropes: Not only is he good friends with a black colleague, he said, he has black family members. Confronted about a comment he made in 2012, in which he said it was time to send President Barack Obama “home to Kenya,” he asserted that he doesn’t have “a racial bone” in his body. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/01/congressman-plays-black-friend-card-showing-that-age-old-racist-attitudes-persist/?utm_term=.d29179521723

Fighting racism, battling burnout: causes of activist burnout in US racial justice activists They described four primary burnout causes: emotional-dispositional causes, structural causes, backlash causes, and in-movement causes. Implications for activist and movement sustainability are discussed. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2018.1439981?journalCode=rers20