{"id":6287,"date":"2009-11-16T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6287"},"modified":"2009-11-16T11:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T16:06:09","slug":"crackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6287","title":{"rendered":"Crackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

As expected, Andy Birkey of the Minnesoros “Independent” <\/em>was at last week’s “Appeal to Heaven” fundraiser for You Can Run But You Can Not Hide, a Christian group that evangelizes in the most hostile environment in America today – public schools.\u00a0 (Pointless and unneeded disclosure that serves more as inter-station\u00a0out-shouting: YCRBYCNH’s Bradlee Dean and Jake MacMillan co-host Sons of Liberty<\/em>, on AM1280, which follows Ed and I on Saturday afternoons).<\/p>\n

Everyone expected Birkey to show up, because the special guest speaker was Rep. Michele Bachmann.\u00a0 If Rep. Bachmann stops for a hamburger, the “Independent<\/em>” is there.<\/p>\n

Now, I didn’t attend the event – I had a school thing for one of my kids to go to.<\/p>\n

But I was drawn to this bit here in Birkey’s coverage (with emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n

The almost exclusively white crowd<\/strong> had assembled at the Sheraton ballroom in Bloomington to raise funds for the ministry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Almost exclusively white?”<\/p>\n

Part of me wonders if Birkey can qualify or quantify the phrase “almost exclusively white”.\u00a0 How many non-white people were <\/em>there?\u00a0 One?\u00a0 Ten? Five percent?\u00a0 How does one contextualize “almost exclusively white” in a state that is, let’s remember, almost exclusively (over 90%) white<\/a> (about four percent black, three percent Asian and about a fifth of a percent Hispanic).<\/p>\n

The other part of me wants to stand on a soapbox and remind the world…<\/p>\n

…that however “almost exclusively” white the crowd at YCRBYCNH’s rally may have been, it is and shall always be less so than the white, college-educated, middle-class staff of the Minnesoros “Independent”<\/em><\/a> will ever be.\u00a0 The Mindy’s <\/em>staff, with the brief exception of Abdi Aynte, has always been vastly whiter than Minnesota as a whole.<\/p>\n

For those of you who keep count of such things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As expected, Andy Birkey of the Minnesoros “Independent” was at last week’s “Appeal to Heaven” fundraiser for You Can Run But You Can Not Hide, a Christian group that evangelizes in the most hostile environment in America today – public schools.\u00a0 (Pointless and unneeded disclosure that serves more as inter-station\u00a0out-shouting: YCRBYCNH’s Bradlee Dean and Jake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287","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=6287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6361,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions\/6361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}