{"id":193285,"date":"2008-12-30T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/30\/why-yes-we-are-a-bunch-of-racists\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T23:18:00","slug":"why-yes-we-are-a-bunch-of-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/30\/why-yes-we-are-a-bunch-of-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Yes, We Are A Bunch of Racists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Republican party, where not only does a candidate for chairman of the RNC, Chip Saltsman, release a <del>holiday<\/del> Christmas CD with &#8220;Barack the Magic Negro&#8221; on it, but it now appears that doing so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1208\/16919.html\">help his bid to succeed current Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, former Ohio Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, decided to weigh in in favor of Mr Saltsman, cementing his role as the biggest Tom of the century in an attempt to use this in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">his<\/span> bid to become RNC chair.<\/p>\n<p>When this crap is so toxic that Michael Steele (also looking for the chair) is keeping his head down, Ken Blackwell is bringing <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">Tom<\/span>foolery to a new level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Republican party, where not only does a candidate for chairman of the RNC, Chip Saltsman, release a holiday Christmas CD with &#8220;Barack the Magic Negro&#8221; on it, but it now appears that doing so help his bid to succeed current Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan. Of course, former Ohio Secretary of State, Ken &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193285"}],"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=193285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}