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[[File:PeoplesCube_toaster.jpg|275px|right|thumbnail| A satire photo by Oleg Atbashian of [[The People's Cube]]. It showcases the absurd lengths the [[Lamestream media]] will go to promote racial discord.]] The '''race card''' is the use of one's race for political or legal advantage.  The term is typically used in the phrase "playing the race card," as in playing a valuable card in a game of bridge or poker.

[[File:PeoplesCube_toaster.jpg|275px|right|thumbnail| A satire photo by Oleg Atbashian of [[The People's Cube]]. It showcases the absurd lengths the [[Lamestream media]] will go to promote racial discord.]] Playing the '''race card''' means to use one's own race for political or legal advantage.  The term is drawn from the domain of card games, and effectively compares this action to playing a valuable card in a game of bridge or poker.

==Journo-List==

==Journo-List==

The Journo-list was a listserv comprised of several hundred [[liberal]] journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists who privately discussed ways to assist [[Barack Hussein Obama 2008 Presidential campaign|Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign]] in the [[mainstream media]].<ref>http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/print</ref>  Employees of news organizations including ''[[Time magazine]]'', ''[[Politico]]'', the ''[[Huffington Post]]'', the ''Baltimore Sun'', the ''[[Guardian]]'', the ''[[Nation]]'', ''Salon'' and the ''[[New Republic]]'' participated.

The Journo-list was a listserv comprised of several hundred [[liberal]] journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists who privately discussed ways to assist [[Barack Hussein Obama 2008 Presidential campaign|Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign]] in the [[mainstream media]].<ref>http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/print</ref>  Employees of news organizations including ''[[Time magazine]]'', ''[[Politico]]'', the ''[[Huffington Post]]'', the ''Baltimore Sun'', the ''[[Guardian]]'', the ''[[Nation]]'', ''Salon'' and the ''[[New Republic]]'' participated.

Spencer Ackerman, who worked for something called the ''Washington Independent'' proposed a strategy to defend [[Barack Obama]] during the Rev. [[Jeremiah Wright]] and Church of [[Liberation Theology]] revelations (note the [[Marx]]ist terminology):

[[Spencer Ackerman]], who worked for the ''Washington Independent'' (a branch of the [[American Independent News Network]] proposed a strategy to defend [[Barack Obama]] during the Rev. [[Jeremiah Wright]] and Church of [[Liberation Theology]] revelations (note the [[Marx]]ist terminology):

{{quotebox|I do not endorse a [[Popular Front]], nor do I think you need to. It's not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright's defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger's [pejorative reference] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. ...And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them--[[Fred Barnes]], [[Karl Rove]], who cares--and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575379200412040286.html</ref>}}

{{quotebox|I do not endorse a [[Popular Front]], nor do I think you need to. It's not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright's defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger's [pejorative reference] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. ...And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them--[[Fred Barnes]], [[Karl Rove]], who cares--and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575379200412040286.html</ref>}}