{"id":1426,"date":"2008-10-12T21:08:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T01:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2008-10-12T21:08:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T01:08:19","slug":"republican-racism-my-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/12\/republican-racism-my-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Racism &#038; My Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone on my street who had an Obama sign in their yard received a copy of this letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Neighbor:<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take this the wrong way, but a friend has recommended that I reach out to you about <strong>a problem that you may be having<\/strong> but may not be aware of: Have you ever considered whether your <strong>ostentatious support for Senator Barack Obama<\/strong> is really a <strong>disguise<\/strong> that hides a deeply anchored <strong>form of racism towards Black-Americans<\/strong>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it goes on and on like that.\u00c2\u00a0 A neighbor who writes for the Washington Independent <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/10456\/hate-mail-in-communist-county\">has the whole letter here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not angry about it &#8211; it&#8217;s more pathetic than anything else, really.\u00c2\u00a0 If anything, it stoked some fires.\u00c2\u00a0 It sure pissed off my neighbor Jack, a 70-something vet who is four-square in Obama&#8217;s corner.\u00c2\u00a0 He went out and put up more Obama signs after getting his.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep it up, guys.\u00c2\u00a0 But after you lose?\u00c2\u00a0 Please go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone on my street who had an Obama sign in their yard received a copy of this letter: Dear Neighbor: Please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take this the wrong way, but a friend has recommended that I reach out to you about a problem that you may be having but may not be aware of: Have you ever [&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":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}