{"id":2278,"date":"2009-01-13T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T20:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2009-01-13T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T20:41:56","slug":"gop-white-and-smug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/13\/gop-white-and-smug\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP: White and Smug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so not fair, that people keep implying that racism lies behind the Bush DOJ&#8217;s actions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In that incident in August 2004, Voting Section Chief John Tanner sent an  e-mail to Schlozman asking Schlozman to bring coffee for him to a meeting both were  scheduled to attend.  Schlozman replied asking Tanner how he liked his coffee.   Tanner&#8217;s response was, &#8220;Mary Frances Berry style &#8211; black and bitter.&#8221;  Berry is an  African-American who was the Chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from  November 1993 until late 2004.  Schlozman forwarded the e-mail chain to several  Department officials (including Principal DAAG Bradshaw) but not Acosta, with the  comment, &#8220;Y&#8217;all will appreciate Tanner&#8217;s response.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just the sort of people you want in charge of Justice, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so not fair, that people keep implying that racism lies behind the Bush DOJ&#8217;s actions: In that incident in August 2004, Voting Section Chief John Tanner sent an e-mail to Schlozman asking Schlozman to bring coffee for him to a meeting both were scheduled to attend. Schlozman replied asking Tanner how he liked his [&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":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","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=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}