{"id":583,"date":"2008-04-02T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/02\/what-was-that-again-about-how-un-racist-america-is-lou\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T23:20:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T04:20:55","slug":"what-was-that-again-about-how-un-racist-america-is-lou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/02\/what-was-that-again-about-how-un-racist-america-is-lou\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was That Again About How Un-Racist America Is, Lou?*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080328\/FOREIGN\/746301768\/1001\">Condoleeza Rice&#8217;s comments<\/a> that contemporary racial relations reflect an American &#8220;birth defect,&#8221; Lou Dobbs offered a dismissive monologue in which he tried to deny that there is really any problem to talk about. In a truly beautiful moment of irony, he accidentally lets slip a good part of the slur &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordorigins.org\/index.php\/cotton_picking\/\">cotton-pickin&#8217;<\/a>&#8221; in reference to Black leaders.<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Y0W19-N3Ik[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>* Title stole from <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/008924.html\">Jessica&#8217;s post<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/\">feministing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also awesomely ironic: <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/awesome-irony.html\">Dr. Watson is more black than most<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Condoleeza Rice&#8217;s comments that contemporary racial relations reflect an American &#8220;birth defect,&#8221; Lou Dobbs offered a dismissive monologue in which he tried to deny that there is really any problem to talk about. In a truly beautiful moment of irony, he accidentally lets slip a good part of the slur &#8220;cotton-pickin&#8217;&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,285,1760],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11887,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/11887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}