Spadille you are right on.
It seems to me that the white people who accuse "blacks people" of "always playing the race card" are the same white people who think it's ok to say stuff that would make the Klan uncomfortable as long as they begin it with "I'm not a racist, but..."
To those arguing with Spadille:
I have and have had numerous black friends, both goth and urban. I don't think I have ever been accused of being a racist by any of them, other than perhaps in jest. Maybe the "Race Card" is being played because you don't recognize your own privilaged status, and are in fact engaging in racist behaviour?
It's not up to the perpetrator to decide whether or not their behaviour is racist. If the victim of racism says "I feel like you're being racially insensitive" the proper thing to do is ask why and correct your behaviour, it's not to denigrate them for feeling uncomfortable with a variation on the in and of itself racist idea that "THOSE people always cry racism".
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