If you don't believe that white men have a "gender/race" card that is played on their behalf

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automatically and without their having to do or say anything . . .

Let's see:

Government

43 U.S. Presidents - all 43 have been white men (100%)

In the entire history of the U.S. Senate, there have been:
5 black senators (1 woman, 4 men)
5 Asian American senators (all men)
6 Hispanic senators (all men)
3 Native American senators (all men)
34 white female senators

and 1,841 white males (97%)


Corporate America

4 African American male CEOs on the Fortune 500
1 African American female CEO on the Fortune 500
7 Hispanic CEOs on the Fortune 500
11 Female CEOs on the Fortune 500

and 477 white males (95%) (of course, the percentage would be even higher if we went beyond current numbers)

Media

Black Hosts of primetime cable programs - 0
Black Hosts of Sunday morning political talk shows - 0
Percentage of Sunday morning political talk show broadcasts with no black guests appearing anywhere in the program - 61%



So, the next time a white man accuses a woman or a minority of "playing the gender/race card," remind him that it was white men who made the rules, set up the table, decided who could sit at it and then dealt those cards to them from the bottom of the deck.