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kpete

(71,961 posts) Tue May 13, 2014, 06:06 PM May 2014

Why do ya always have to play the ace Card?

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/13/1298976/-Cartoon-Always-with-the-race-thing

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Why do ya always have to play the ace Card? (Original Post) kpete May 2014 OP

Because 99% of the time mercymechap May 2014 #1

More than that randys1 May 2014 #2

k&r Solomon May 2014 #3

Headline typo made me think this would be about card games! Jim Lane May 2014 #4

mercymechap

(579 posts)

1. Because 99% of the time

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2014, 06:08 PM

May 2014

it is about race.......

randys1

(16,286 posts)

2. More than that

Reply to mercymechap (Reply #1)

Tue May 13, 2014, 06:17 PM

May 2014

Solomon

(12,310 posts)

3. k&r

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2014, 07:00 PM

May 2014

Bump

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)

4. Headline typo made me think this would be about card games!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2014, 01:28 PM

May 2014

As for the actual toon, yeah, if the "race card" phrase had been in circulation during the Jim Crow era, the people doing the lynchings would certainly have used it.

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