{"id":45677,"date":"2014-07-14T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45677"},"modified":"2014-07-14T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:07:08","slug":"dear-black-americans-the-democrats-party-just-isnt-that-into-you-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45677","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic Party Just Isn’t That Into You Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 African-America
\nFrom: The Democrat Party
\nRe:\u00a0 Can We Still Be Friends? (Meaning: Please Keep Voting For Us)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dear African-America:<\/p>\n

We – the Democrat Party – know, we know, we know:\u00a0 Fifty years of the “War on Poverty” have left Afro-America poorer, but has immensely enriched the political class.\u00a0 Fifty years of “Affirmative Action” have left you underrepresented in general society, but been great for transferring wealth to our lawyer friends.\u00a0 Thirty years of “War on Drugs” have left your neighborhoods scarred and a disproportionate number of your male population in jail.\u00a0 14 people weren’t killed last weekend in the white parts of Chicago!\u00a0 Of course, the economy under President Obama has been vastly worse for African-Americans than any other segment of society.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And now, the current wave of illegal immigration is hurting your corner of the economy worse than anyone else’s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why is this happening?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Because\u00a0African-Americans are\u00a0no longer the biggest minority<\/a>, and we Democrats have to be planning for the future.\u00a0 And Latino votes count as much as yours do, except, of course, there’s more of them, so…<\/p>\n

…anyway, hope you keep voting Democrat!<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 African-America From: The Democrat Party Re:\u00a0 Can We Still Be Friends? (Meaning: Please Keep Voting For Us) \u00a0Dear African-America: We – the Democrat Party – know, we know, we know:\u00a0 Fifty years of the “War on Poverty” have left Afro-America poorer, but has immensely enriched the political class.\u00a0 Fifty years of “Affirmative Action” have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45677","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=45677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45725,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45677\/revisions\/45725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}