Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Georgia councilman says interracial marriage is ‘just not the way a Christian is supposed to live’

Most of the time, the National Rifle Association is aggressively pro-gun rights. But that hasn’t always been the case when it comes to black Americans. The organization has sometimes declined to forcefully defend gun owners of color. Philando Castile, for example, #whytheracecardisplayed

China criticized a State Department official's recent statement suggesting that the U.S needed a different approach toward Beijing's global rise because it represented a society that isn't "Caucasian."

Silent Sam supporters and anti-racist activists met again in Chapel Hill on Saturday, moving across the street from campus this time but bringing the same insults, arguments and chants that have animated their clashes for months. #whytheracecardisplayed

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In 1787, the Constitution considered Black people as three-fifths of a human being. Blacks voting was not an issue. Then came the Civil War and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Enslaving people, except as punishment for a crime, was illegal. Birthright U.S. citizenship was established, explicitly including freed enslaved people. Black men got the right to vote. Over 2,000 Black men were elected to government offices, and they began purchasing or homesteading property and voting. FULL ARTICLE: https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com #whytheracecardisplayed

Anglo-Protestant cultural chauvinism held sway for much of American history, though since the mid-1900s, it can be said to have lost some of its power. Throughout its history, many racial or ethnic groups—such as Hispanic Americans, African-Americans, or Asian Americans in the United States have struggled to counter the dominant ethnic or racial prejudice of the Anglo-Protestant majority by recovering alternative religious visions of nationhood or cultural solidarity. For groups such as the 20th-century Native American Church, or the African American Nation of Islam, religious expression formed an important vehicle to contest white supremacy. FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com #WHYTHERACECARDISPLAYED