{"id":37094,"date":"2013-07-05T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37094"},"modified":"2013-07-02T18:49:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T23:49:37","slug":"37094","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37094","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was a lad, there were Colored People.  They became Afro-Americans for a while, then African-Americans, then Black and now are Persons of Color, which seems to be full circle but apparently is not. <\/p>\n<p>Persons of Color is politically correct but Colored People is a deadly insult, even though the nation\u2019s largest enforcer of political correctness \u2013 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People \u2013 still uses the deadly insult as an essential part of its own name. <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know about you, but speaking for myself as middle-aged White Male Americans, it\u2019s getting harder every day to remember who I\u2019m oppressing and who I\u2019m subsidizing. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It does get confusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When I was a lad, there were Colored People. They became Afro-Americans for a while, then African-Americans, then Black and now are Persons of Color, which seems to be full circle but apparently is not. Persons of Color is politically correct but Colored People is a deadly insult, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37094","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=37094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37095,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37094\/revisions\/37095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}