See play the race card on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1997, Mark Fuhrman, Murder in Brentwood, page 153:",
"text": "The defense played the race card, but Ito let them.",
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"ref": "2002, Donald A. Carson, Love in Hard Places, page 94:",
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