{"id":3235,"date":"2008-09-05T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2008-09-05T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:12:27","slug":"pro-forma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Pro Forma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press states the bleeding obvious; the GOP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/27853344.html\">isn&#8217;t real stacked with minorities<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Republican National Convention showcased a Native American color guard, a black preacher and video footage of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, all part of its effort to present the GOP as a picture of diversity. What it hasn&#8217;t offered is many minorities speaking from the podium in prime time, or sitting among the delegates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, tell me about it!\u00a0 Here in the Fourth District, we realize the GOP&#8217;s shortcomings at reaching out to the Afro\/Latin\/Somali\/Hmong American communities.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a challenge the GOP needs to meet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I think it&#8217;s worth noting that as &#8220;white&#8221; as the GOP&#8217;s body of delegates may have been, it was a <em>lot <\/em>more diverse than the clots of protesters outside, who were as close to universally white as anything this side of a\u00a0Klan rally.<\/p>\n<p>Just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press states the bleeding obvious; the GOP isn&#8217;t real stacked with minorities.\u00a0 The Republican National Convention showcased a Native American color guard, a black preacher and video footage of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, all part of its effort to present the GOP as a picture of diversity. What it hasn&#8217;t offered is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}