{"id":1237,"date":"2008-09-05T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T13:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2008-09-05T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T13:29:53","slug":"rep-lynn-westmorelands-continuing-racist-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/05\/rep-lynn-westmorelands-continuing-racist-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Lynn Westmoreland&#8217;s Continuing Racist Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, seems that good ol&#8217; Lynn wants us to believe that <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/04\/republican-rep-lynn-westmoreland-plays-to-the-base\/\">his calling Obama &#8220;uppity&#8221;<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/westmoreland-statement-on-uppity-remark\/\">pure and innocent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never heard that term used in a racially derogatory sense. It is important to note that the dictionary definition of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcuppity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaffecting an air of inflated self-esteem \u00e2\u20ac\u201d- snobbish.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we meant by uppity when we used it in the mill village where I grew up.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lynn, you lying sack of shit.\u00c2\u00a0 Where did you grow up again?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, right.\u00c2\u00a0 It says Atlanta, right there in your biography.\u00c2\u00a0 And where did you live for 25 years?\u00c2\u00a0 Fayette County?\u00c2\u00a0 The same place where my first day after transferring to Fayette County High School, the girl assigned to show me around pointed to the steps and said, &#8220;That&#8217;s where the niggers hang out&#8221;?\u00c2\u00a0 Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;ve never ever heard &#8220;uppity&#8221; used in a racially derogatory sense, you cracker.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Blacknell.net Statement for Immediate Release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never heard the term &#8220;cracker&#8221; used in a racially derogatory sense. It is important to note that the dictionary definition of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccracker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<span class=\"sense_break\"><span class=\"sense_break\"><span class=\"sense_break\"><span class=\"sense_break\"><span class=\"sense_content\">a dry thin crispy baked bread product that may be leavened or unleavened<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we meant by cracker when we used it in the kitchen where I grew up<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, seems that good ol&#8217; Lynn wants us to believe that his calling Obama &#8220;uppity&#8221; was pure and innocent: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never heard that term used in a racially derogatory sense. It is important to note that the dictionary definition of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcuppity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaffecting an air of inflated self-esteem \u00e2\u20ac\u201d- snobbish.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we meant by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}