Defining Playing The Race Card Playing the race card is believed to be a tactic or ‘you are excused card,’ by people of color to state they are being discriminated only by their race. At least this is how many people of non-color see it. People who believe in this magical race card and who have complete inexperience in racism being inflicted upon them state to not bring race up because it is completely ‘irrelevant.’ Devorah Major’s article “Playing the Race Card When Frame of reference is everything” explains that saying someone is using the race card is nothing but plain ignorance. Mrs. Major’s defines through her article the phrase playing the race card as a statement created by ignorant people who are unaware of the racism and struggles
