Playing the "Race Card"

Modern-day racism is hard to prove. Gone are the days of white hoods and robes, public lynchings, the word 'negro,' etc. Those days are all-but-gone.

I'm going to wager that almost all direct forms of racism (anonymous instances aside) are witnessed by whites. This is the back room story telling, poker-night 'nigger' joking, etc. This type of behavior is becoming less and less common in public.

Discrimination now seems to take the form of job denying, routine-traffic-stop(ing), 'i'ma-screw-this-guy-watch-this' kind of behavior. The list is endless for impossibly hard to prove, yet just as harmful, racial discrimination. Look at who's still in power, calling the shots, got the CEO positions, making the 'legal' money, passing the laws, running the courts...

Watch what happens when someone accuses someone of racial discrimination. The media lights up with stories of "playing the race card," giving it a negative connotation from the start. Providing it makes it to the courts, it's almost impossible to legally prove, equatable with mental and psychological abuse in terms of difficulty maintaining a case.

The 'old days' of hoods and robes have been retired to a much more subtle, almost nostalgic, place that is now referred to as "heritage" and "history" not to be meddled with, changed, or forgotten.