{"id":18252,"date":"2011-02-18T12:55:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18252"},"modified":"2011-02-18T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T20:11:18","slug":"a-cheapening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18252","title":{"rendered":"A Cheapening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Jackson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/blogs\/news\/116487168.html\">on the Wisconsin union protests<\/a>, with emphasis added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civil Rights activist Jesse Jackson led protesters Friday at the Capitol in civil rights-era chants and called the protest over Gov. Scott Walker&#8217;s union cuts &#8220;<em>a real Martin Luther King moment<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Black people who&#8217;d\u00a0 been kept as slaves and\/or second class citizens for 400 years vs. people who are treated as better than regular citizens, who earn more than their private sector counterparts, per capita.<\/p>\n<p>People whose rights and humanity had been systematically stripped from them for a dozen generations vs. people whose rights and humanity the system put above private sector workers for fifty years.<\/p>\n<p>People who had dogs and water canons sicced on them for demanding their rights vs. people who&#8217;ve gotten an adoring media tongue bath for demanding to be kept<\/p>\n<p>People whose color was used to make them less than human vs. people whose union cards made them more important than democracy itself, to the Wisconsin Senate Democrat caucus.<\/p>\n<p>Yep.\u00a0 <em>Just like Martin Luther King<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen a few liberals on Twitter chuckling that the Madison protests are &#8220;like the Tea Party&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 These protests are like King George III protesting against his subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Jackson on the Wisconsin union protests, with emphasis added: Civil Rights activist Jesse Jackson led protesters Friday at the Capitol in civil rights-era chants and called the protest over Gov. Scott Walker&#8217;s union cuts &#8220;a real Martin Luther King moment.&#8221; Black people who&#8217;d\u00a0 been kept as slaves and\/or second class citizens for 400 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18252","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=18252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18255,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18252\/revisions\/18255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}