{"id":16903,"date":"2010-12-31T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16903"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T17:20:20","slug":"racists-under-the-eaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16903","title":{"rendered":"Racists Under The Eaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The piece is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theactivistnextdoor.com\/\">from last week <\/a>&#8211; I was a bit remiss in not linking it back then, and I plead overwork &#8211; but Sheila Kihne has been unpacking the unholy alliance of &#8220;community organizers&#8221; and liberal churches in bringing stifling PC to the parts of Minnesota that actually pay their own way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Star Trib today featured another installation of it&#8217;s ongoing series on the wannabe martyr of suburban school reform, Eden Prairie Superintendent Melissa Krull.  (Michelle Rhee she is not, but she&#8217;s sure trying hard to attain the same level of national adoration.)  Our good friend Myron Orfield was back too with this Christmas message of goodwill:<\/p>\n<p>From this article.<\/p>\n<p><em> &#8220;This is a big decision for the school board and for the region &#8212; whether we&#8217;re going to have racially integrated school districts,&#8221; Orfield said. &#8221;The implications [if the proposed plan fails] will be that there are a group of white racist parents who can stop integration in schools.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I try very, very hard not to question intent.  I try to believe that people are inherently good.  But this statement is really beyond the pale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the lines for &#8220;the pale&#8221; have been pushed out to the point where demigogues like Orfield <em>do <\/em>believe slandering those who stand in their way is perfectly acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of Sheila&#8217;s piece.\u00a0 She had a great 2010; 2011 should rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The piece is from last week &#8211; I was a bit remiss in not linking it back then, and I plead overwork &#8211; but Sheila Kihne has been unpacking the unholy alliance of &#8220;community organizers&#8221; and liberal churches in bringing stifling PC to the parts of Minnesota that actually pay their own way: The Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16904,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions\/16904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}