Can you point to at least five instances where a Black person using the so-called “race card” resulted in the death and destruction of white people? I would be very curious to hear of these events.
Not to speak for the author, but what I read into this sentiment is this: Black people understand what racism is, what it feels likes, how it hurts, and how it kills. We understand when we are the target of racist actions. But because white people would rather defend their position instead of acknowledging that racism exists, the so-called “race card” theory was invented. Black people know full well that it was created to minimize Black deaths and discrimination and to keep white people comfortable. Basically it was created by white people attempting to completely discredit racism and to falsely accuse Black people of “playing the victim” when white people were the ACTUAL perpetrators of the crime.
What you seem to be proposing is for Black people to not only be casualties of racism, but for us to fully lay our case before white people who will then decide if the offense was racist or not. Checks and balances? For what? How are white people going to make a determination about an event they have never experienced? It’s not white people’s job to play judge and jury over Black bodies.
The example you used was to help everyone relate to what you were saying, but the problem is there is not other event that compares with the vicious hatred of racism. Bumping into someone at best will get you an annoyed look — racism can get you KILLED. That is why the author said this is not a game.
The only check and balance needed at this point is for white people to start looking in the mirror, figuring out how their actions have continued to further perpetuate racism in this country, stop worrying about being uncomfortable, stop projecting the problem on Black people who by the way did not create a racist society, and focus on themselves and their family members and friends who also contribute to the racism and discrimination that we all know exists, and decide how they will make changes to fix it.
No one can change the world alone, but every little bit helps. What doesn’t help is challenging anyone who writes or speaks about racism from a vantage point that has no knowledge of what racism feels like or how it personally affect the families, friends, elders, and mental psyches of Black people as a whole.
