{"id":177159,"date":"2019-12-07T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/07\/racists-are-such-delicate-snowflakes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-07T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:52:00","slug":"racists-are-such-delicate-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/07\/racists-are-such-delicate-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Racists are Such Delicate Snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
In North Carolina, racists are cancelling Chirstmas parades because they are concerned about people protesting the Confederate flag waving “heritage groups” who have routinely marched in their parades<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Let me be the fist to say, “Go f%$# yourselves, you racist dirt-bags.”
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Visions of sugar plums were not dancing in the heads of officials in Wake Forest, N.C. Instead, they saw protesters violently clashing with members of a local Confederate group who were set to march in the town\u2019s 72nd annual Christmas parade later this month.<\/p>\n

So to be safe, the town canceled it.<\/p>\n

In a Wednesday night video message<\/a>, Wake Forest Mayor Vivian Jones announced that the town\u2019s downtown board of directors voted to cancel the Dec. 14 Christmas parade out of concern that \u201coutside agitators\u201d would show up to protest or defend the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, who planned to march in the event.<\/p>\n

The decision in Wake Forest, located less than 20 miles outside Raleigh, comes almost a week after another nearby town, Garner, N.C., announced it was canceling its Christmas parade over possible protests of a float sponsored by a local Confederate group, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem is that you have allowed racist organizations to march.<\/p>\n

If someone is celebrating the a racist attempt to overthrow the United States of America, maybe you should tell them that they are not welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In North Carolina, racists are cancelling Chirstmas parades because they are concerned about people protesting the Confederate flag waving “heritage groups” who have routinely marched in their parades. Let me be the fist to say, “Go f%$# yourselves, you racist dirt-bags.” Visions of sugar plums were not dancing in the heads of officials in Wake …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-177159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}