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play the race card

Donald A. Carson, Love in Hard Places p.94.
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Moreover, some leaders on both sides of any racial divide love to play the race card to keep themselves in power.

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play the race cardMark Fuhrman, Murder in Brentwood p.153.
play the race cardTo assert that race or racism is responsible for a course of events, especially when race is not of particular significance to the issue in question; to attempt to inspire a particular reaction by raising the issue of race.
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