{"id":71601,"date":"2019-06-20T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71601"},"modified":"2019-06-19T22:50:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T03:50:24","slug":"sins-of-the-fore-fore-forefathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71601","title":{"rendered":"Sins Of The Fore-Fore-Forefathers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:   Mitch BERG is waiting in line to get into a Saints game.  As he scans the program, Avery LIBRELLE rides up on a segway.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Er&#8230;(<em>looks around, sees no escape<\/em>) hey, Avery.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  White people owe black people reparations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Huh.  So you mean that people who&#8217;ve never been enslaved are owed money by people who never owed slaves.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  History has meaning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  And the actions of one&#8217;s ancestors matter, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Absolutely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Huh.  So &#8211; being as I am descended from people that abolished slavery 700 years before the US, or Britain for that matter, am I owed a big thank you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  (<em>stares briefly, guns the segway<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And SCENE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is waiting in line to get into a Saints game. As he scans the program, Avery LIBRELLE rides up on a segway. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Er&#8230;(looks around, sees no escape) hey, Avery. LIBRELLE: White people owe black people reparations! BERG: Huh. So you mean that people who&#8217;ve never been enslaved are owed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71601","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=71601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71602,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71601\/revisions\/71602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}