“We’re Not Racist — See, Here’s Our Token.” The Race Card Defense Always Exposes Itself

 

“We’re Not Racist — See, Here’s Our Token.” The Race Card Defense Always Exposes Itself

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It’s interesting how often people insist they are not racist — while moving in ways that reveal the opposite.

You say:

“We’re fair.”
“We’re professional.”
“We don’t discriminate.”

Yet the moment accountability approaches,
a familiar pattern appears.

Suddenly — a Black face is pulled forward.
A “representative.”
A “buffer.”
A “stand-in shield.”

Not because this person is respected.

But because they are useful.

Placed in the doorway.
Positioned in the hallway.
Conveniently “on duty” when I arrive.

Arranged through surveillance.
Triggered by cameras.
Timed by alerts.

So that I will encounter them —
not by coincidence…

…but by strategy.

Not to welcome me —
but to neutralize the accusation you fear.

To say without words:

“See? We can’t be discriminatory…
We have one of them right here.”

But the very act of staging this performance
exposes the truth.

If someone must be stationed in advance
to prove fairness,

Then fairness is not your nature —
it is your costume.

If a person must be used as a human prop
to create the illusion of inclusion,

Then inclusion was never your intent —
only optics.

And if you must call upon another Black person
to deflect responsibility…

then you are not honoring them —
you are weaponizing their presence.

That is not unity.
That is not equity.
That is not respect.

That is tokenism.

And tokenism is not proof against racism —
it is evidence of it.

Because love does not require stagecraft.
Integrity does not need actors.
Justice does not need props.

Where truth exists —
it simply stands on its own.

And where discrimination hides behind “representation,”
Yahuah reveals the motive behind the mask.

For nothing done in darkness
can remain unseen forever.