{"id":1306,"date":"2008-09-23T23:14:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T03:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2008-09-23T23:14:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T03:14:21","slug":"clinging-to-bitterness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/23\/clinging-to-bitterness\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinging to Bitterness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a radio piece on NPR today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/player\/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=94953534&amp;m=94953493\">about recent immigration raids in Laurel, Mississippi<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The gist of the piece was that it was a local union that tipped off the authorities.\u00c2\u00a0 Listening to some of the union members quoted, it struck me as pretty clear as to who they blamed for their declining situation.\u00c2\u00a0 The immigrants, of course.\u00c2\u00a0 The contempt just dripped off of the words &#8220;illegals&#8221; and &#8220;Mexicans.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And it brought some of Tim Wise&#8217;s work to mind:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J3Xe1kX7Wsc&amp;feature=related[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, a friend forwarded another Tim Wise piece this morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggerbuzz.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/17\/tim-wise-nation-on-white-priviledge-slams-palin\/\">which I recommend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a radio piece on NPR today, about recent immigration raids in Laurel, Mississippi.\u00c2\u00a0 The gist of the piece was that it was a local union that tipped off the authorities.\u00c2\u00a0 Listening to some of the union members quoted, it struck me as pretty clear as to who they blamed for their declining situation.\u00c2\u00a0 [&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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}