{"id":74965,"date":"2020-08-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74965"},"modified":"2020-08-07T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:02:38","slug":"almost-as-if-by-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74965","title":{"rendered":"Almost As If By Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the late 1980s, Gallup took a poll about race relations among African-Americans.   About a third said racism had an effect on their lives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty years later &#8211; during the regime of the nation&#8217;s first African-American president &#8211; that percentage had doubled.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The graph over the past 20 years or so <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1687\/Race-Relations.aspx\">looks like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/content.gallup.com\/origin\/gallupinc\/GallupSpaces\/Production\/Cms\/POLL\/hiuthfaxqkoexw5no0tfja.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Note the beginning of the slide &#8211; the middle of an election where the Democrats needed to pull out all the stops to counter the Tea Party and general dissatisfaction with the collapse of the healthcare system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unexpected?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/media-great-racial-awakening\">Hardly<\/a>.  It was by design.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graph depicts the prevalence of the terms &#8220;Race&#8221; and &#8220;Racism&#8221; in our &#8220;elite&#8217; media&#8217;s narrative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/9c9c2bbd09e025a564eea667f44f991f9bb5a83f-2054x1174.png?w=1200&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, it&#8217;s almost as if the &#8220;elite&#8221; media needed to create a crisis for the &#8220;elite&#8221; political class not to waste.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember &#8211; &#8220;race conflict&#8221; is merely a delivery system for &#8220;class conflict&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1980s, Gallup took a poll about race relations among African-Americans. About a third said racism had an effect on their lives. Thirty years later &#8211; during the regime of the nation&#8217;s first African-American president &#8211; that percentage had doubled. The graph over the past 20 years or so looks like this: Note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74965","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=74965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74966,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74965\/revisions\/74966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}