1. race card - Noun
2. race card - Verb
(sports) A printed card or pamphlet giving information about a series of horse races and listing the horses to be run; a racebook.
The invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to score points in that discussion.
race card (third-person singular simple present race cards, present participle race carding, simple past and past participle race carded)
To invoke race in a discussion in order to score points in that discussion.
Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card. Sarah Palin
You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy. Shemar Moore
Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways. Lester Holt
During his appearance on the show, Laurence clashed with an audience member who said has been subjected to racism and he responded by saying that ‘playing the race card was getting boring’. Source: Internet
Contrast this with a guy like Andrew Yang – a candidate who acknowledges, but decisively doesn’t play, the “son of immigrants” race card. Source: Internet
I personally have seen non-white minor gang members bait white cops and then play the race card when the cops react. Source: Internet