{"id":54999,"date":"2015-09-01T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54999"},"modified":"2015-09-01T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:53:21","slug":"liberal-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54999","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just to reset the stage: \u00a0last Saturday’s “Black Lives Matter” demonstration (and its\u00a0union benefactors), without bothering to get a city permit to block a street or use a city park, used a city park to organize a parade that went on to block traffic on the Midway’s busiest street for 3-4 hours, on one of Saint Paul’s highest-traffic days<\/del> on one of the ten days a year when the Midway gets any outside traffic at all, escorted and guarded by an impressive array of Saint Paul Police and the rest of the city’s DFL-run bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

And after all that? \u00a0The biggest controversy about last weekend’s “Black Live Matter” March at the Minnesota State fair, at this remove, is the chant that the crowd broken into at one point during\u00a0the March; “Pigs in a blanket\/fry’em like bacon”.<\/p>\n

The St. Paul police union criticized the chant.<\/p>\n

To which parade organizer Rashad Turn\u00a0replied:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely wasn\u2019t a threat. I don\u2019t know if they would have received it differently if we would have said on a stick. We\u2019re there chanting, using our voices,\u201d Turner said.
\n\u201cIt definitely wasn\u2019t a threat. I don\u2019t know if they would have received it differently if we would have said on a stick. We\u2019re there chanting, using our voices,\u201d Turner said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I’m sure if a group of white people walked up Snelling chanting…<\/p>\n

“Save our cities, cut our losses <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0line their lawns with blazing crosses”\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…or called a blazing cross “campfire\u00a0on a stick”, Rashad Turner would be calling it “just words”, too.<\/p>\n

I’ll take bets on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just to reset the stage: \u00a0last Saturday’s “Black Lives Matter” demonstration (and its\u00a0union benefactors), without bothering to get a city permit to block a street or use a city park, used a city park to organize a parade that went on to block traffic on the Midway’s busiest street for 3-4 hours, on one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54999","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=54999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55004,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54999\/revisions\/55004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}