{"id":37993,"date":"2013-08-26T05:56:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T10:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37993"},"modified":"2013-08-26T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T15:05:41","slug":"monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37993","title":{"rendered":"Monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama went on the air to say that if he had a father who was in his late eighties and fought on Okinawa, he’d look a lot like Delbert Belton.<\/p>\n

Well, no.\u00a0 He didn’t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The beating death of Belton last week was a huge story in the media all last week.<\/p>\n

Well, no. It wasn’t.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Outside the conservative alt-media, the story – like the previous weeks’ death of Christopher Lane – was all but embargoed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Described as “the kind of nice old man who’d become your friend in minutes,” World War II veteran Delbert “Shorty” Belton was assaulted by two teens in the parking lot of the Eagles Lodge in Spokane, Washington, at around 8 p.m. on Wednesday. He died in the hospital Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Belton’s death has already gone viral, and is uncovering deep racial divides, simmering anger and disgust with the media. Most pointedly, many are asking: Why has the death of Belton\u00a0\u2014 and similarly the death of Australian college student Christopher Lane in Oklahoma<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 largely been ignored by a media which was, only a couple of weeks ago, absolutely obsessed with the Trayvon Martin\/ George Zimmerman case. Both the Belton and Lane case feature victims who died in race-related attacks. The only difference between the Belton and Lane cases compared to the Martin case is that they feature white victims and black assaulters.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not to mention serious allegations of explicit racial motivation that were never part of the Martin\/Zimmerman case – at least the one that went to the jury, as opposed to the media narrative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The problem, of course, is that this nation’s “conversation about race” is a monologue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Obama went on the air to say that if he had a father who was in his late eighties and fought on Okinawa, he’d look a lot like Delbert Belton. Well, no.\u00a0 He didn’t.\u00a0 The beating death of Belton last week was a huge story in the media all last week. Well, no. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993","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=37993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37994,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993\/revisions\/37994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}