{"id":38421,"date":"2013-09-17T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38421"},"modified":"2013-09-16T22:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T03:41:22","slug":"38421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38421","title":{"rendered":"Race To The Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only a person obsessed with racial issues would worry about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2013\/09\/06\/219721800\/why-aren-t-there-more-people-of-color-in-craft-brewing?ft=1&amp;f=1053&amp;utm_source=food_nprfood&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">why there aren\u2019t more people of color brewing craft beer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing the reason there are few Black beer crafters is the same\u00a0reason there are so few Black start-up business owners: they don&#8217;t know\u00a0anyone who ever did it so why would they consider it possible?\u00a0 Instead, they look at the other choices they see patterned for them by the adults around them and that&#8217;s what they take up.\u00a0 Entrepreneurship is a learned behavior but our First Black President\u2019s administration is working vigorously to kill it.<\/p>\n<p>Only a dog can hear a dog whistle.\u00a0 Only a racist sees racism everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technically speaking, there are two ways to be a &#8220;post-racial&#8221; president; when there is no more racism, and when racism is the norm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Only a person obsessed with racial issues would worry about\u00a0why there aren\u2019t more people of color brewing craft beer. I&#8217;m guessing the reason there are few Black beer crafters is the same\u00a0reason there are so few Black start-up business owners: they don&#8217;t know\u00a0anyone who ever did it so why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,4,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-media","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421","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=38421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38423,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421\/revisions\/38423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}