{"id":345,"date":"2005-09-15T19:14:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2005-09-15T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T23:14:44","slug":"unclear-on-the-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/09\/15\/unclear-on-the-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"unclear on the concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I came across a quote today which left me pretty much speechless. I know some people just don&#8217;t get it, and I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised when I hear about them (especially when they&#8217;re in the Southern U.S.). A white kid at a high school wore a shirt with a picture of a couple black people being dragged behind a jeep in nooses. Naturally, another (black) kid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/tu-online\/stories\/091505\/met_19772830.shtml\">took offense to this<\/a>, and punched him upside the head. The white kid didn&#8217;t see what the big deal was; he was interviewed, and offered up this introspective gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not racist or anything,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just, some people I hate, some people I don&#8217;t get along with. And black people just happen to be the ones because they think they&#8217;re better than everyone else.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well junior, I am truly sorry to be the one to tell you, but that is pretty much racism defined. I&#8217;m sure that conversely, you don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re better than them because they think they&#8217;re better than you. Gah! It&#8217;s probably good he moved on to a community college, because he obviously wasn&#8217;t learning a whole lot elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>My brain is still a-goggle. How do these people breed and survive? Oh, and it was really nice to hear he was planning to be a Marine. I know I&#8217;d feel better if they gave this half-witted Cletus a gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I came across a quote today which left me pretty much speechless. I know some people just don&#8217;t get it, and I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised when I hear about them (especially when they&#8217;re in the Southern U.S.). A white kid at a high school wore a shirt with a picture of a couple black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}