{"id":4122,"date":"2010-09-08T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2010-09-08T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:05:26","slug":"you-got-a-problem-with-that-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/09\/08\/you-got-a-problem-with-that-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"You Got a Problem With That, Boy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Georgia just makes me shake my head. \u00c2\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/07\/us\/politics\/07bar.html?_r=2&amp;ref=us\">Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>there were no racial overtones when a white supervisor called an adult black man \u00e2\u20ac\u0153boy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The usages were conversational,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the majority explained, repeating what it had told the trial court after the Supreme Court ruled, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nonracial in context.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Even if \u00e2\u20ac\u0153somehow construed as racial,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the unsigned 2-to-1 decision went on, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the comments were ambiguous stray remarks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that were not proof of employment discrimination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking the majority hangs out in <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/05\/rep-lynn-westmorelands-continuing-racist-lies\/\">the same places that Rep. Lynn Westmoreland does<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Georgia just makes me shake my head. \u00c2\u00a0The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that: there were no racial overtones when a white supervisor called an adult black man \u00e2\u20ac\u0153boy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The usages were conversational,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the majority explained, repeating what it had told the trial court after the Supreme Court ruled, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nonracial [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","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=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}