{"id":74869,"date":"2020-08-07T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74869"},"modified":"2020-08-01T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T14:20:05","slug":"if-looks-could-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74869","title":{"rendered":"If Looks Could Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Stopped at the liquor store on the way home. As I was walking to the store, a car pulled into the handicap spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br>Beater car, young black male driver, young black woman passenger. Came in behind me wearing a bandana. No signs of handicap. No sticker on the car. No handicap license plate.<\/p><p>I had to actually grit my teeth not to say something. I know, could have been a white man, Asian man, any young man ignoring the rules and parking in the wrong spot. But it exacerbated The Stereotype of a young black man who thinks he&#8217;s above the rules because of his race. That, or is too stupid to follow the rules.<\/p><p>Either way, he&#8217;s a threat to orderly Society. People who don&#8217;t follow the rules, starting with little ones and working on up, undermine the foundation of civilization.<\/p><p>So I shot him.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>#SatireOnSoManyLevels<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betcha Sally Jo Sorenson has a field day with this one.  (Is Sally Jo still a thing?  I have no idea).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopped at the liquor store on the way home. As I was walking to the store, a car pulled into the handicap spot.\u00a0 Beater car, young black male driver, young black woman passenger. Came in behind me wearing a bandana. No signs of handicap. No sticker on the car. No handicap license plate. I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74869","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=74869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74877,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74869\/revisions\/74877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}