Sorry but I think this article has it wrong.
The point is that handing students 'freedom cards' gives the implication that they are not free unless they have that card, which is the reason why they were scrapped.
I don't however get why it is necessarily more offensive to blacks, any offense caused by such an implication would affect anyone that is issued such a card.
Maybe they took the original idea out of monopoly boardgame. Sounds a bit cheesy, like "freedom fries".
'Get out of jail free'?
Regardless, 'freedom cards' was a retarded idea to begin with, some kind of ignorant far leftist bullshit that actually simply caused more offense as most of their shit does.
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