race card

*race card

Cliché the issue of race magnified and injected into a situation which might otherwise be non-racial. (Typically: deal ~; play ~; use ~.) At the last minute, the opposition candidate played the race card and lost the election for himself.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Anwer	-	Arabic
Sekar	-	Tamil
Bopha	-	Khmer
ĐỨC	-	Vietnamese
Yngve	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Dene	DEEN	English (Rare)