{"id":73905,"date":"2020-04-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73905"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:39:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:39:24","slug":"shutdown-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73905","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown:   Racist!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It is well-established law that a policy which appears to be<br>race-neutral, but which has a disproportionately large adverse impact on<br>racial minorities, is a form of racial discrimination.<\/p><p>Governor Walz&#8217; Stay Home order, which ordered the closure of<br>non-essential businesses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2020\/04\/14\/coronavirus-unemployment-in-minnesota-twice-as-many-claims-in-last-month-than-all-of-last-year\/\">has resulted in nearly half-a-million<br>Minnesotans losing their jobs, 25% of them racial minorities as opposed<br>to only 12% Whites<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Stay Home order is a form of disparate impact racial discrimination.<\/p><p>Governor Walz is a racist.<\/p><p>Republicans in the state House tried to end the Stay Home order.<br>Democrats blocked their efforts.\u00a0 Twice.<\/p><p>Minnesota Democrats are racist.<\/p><p>Why isn&#8217;t anybody talking about this?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhetorical question, right? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well-established law that a policy which appears to berace-neutral, but which has a disproportionately large adverse impact onracial minorities, is a form of racial discrimination. Governor Walz&#8217; Stay Home order, which ordered the closure ofnon-essential businesses, has resulted in nearly half-a-millionMinnesotans losing their jobs, 25% of them racial minorities as opposedto only 12% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,54],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-73905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-ebony-and-ivory","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73905","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=73905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73906,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73905\/revisions\/73906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}