{"id":184345,"date":"2012-05-29T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/29\/nope-no-racism-here-5\/"},"modified":"2012-05-29T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T23:56:00","slug":"nope-no-racism-here-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/29\/nope-no-racism-here-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Nope, No Racism Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Combs excelled at football, and got a 3.75 GPA, and so he got a $54K mertit and athletic scholarship to UCLA.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the good folks at CNN find this controversial, because it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2012\/05\/29\/now-if-you-want-this-money-baby\/H\/t\">Shawn &#8220;P-Diddy&#8221; Combs kid<\/a>, (no direct link, they don&#8217;t deserve it) and they want him to give the money back.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of kids who get scholarships whose parents are filthy rich, but they aren&#8217;t black, in a profession which is stereotypically black (rap), so there is no question if they should return their scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that a two word phrase was in the head of whoever whoever mad this post (no name listed) on CNN.  <\/p>\n<p>The first word was probably &#8220;uppity&#8221;, and the second word probably began with the 14th letter in the English alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2012\/05\/yes-this-is-first-time-i-have-seen-such.html\">Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Combs excelled at football, and got a 3.75 GPA, and so he got a $54K mertit and athletic scholarship to UCLA. It appears that the good folks at CNN find this controversial, because it was Shawn &#8220;P-Diddy&#8221; Combs kid, (no direct link, they don&#8217;t deserve it) and they want him to give the money &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,968,974,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-education","category-hack-journalism","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184345"}],"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=184345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}