{"id":80091,"date":"2021-11-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80091"},"modified":"2021-11-21T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T19:03:00","slug":"80091","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80091","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/21\/1057759740\/outside-of-atlanta-black-families-are-buying-land-to-create-a-safe-haven\">This NPR story &#8211; about a group of black families buying property in Georgia to try to create a black, utopian city<\/a> &#8211; is full of unspoken, and semi-spoken, assumptions that Honky is going to mess the whole thing up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking as a person of honk, I wish them all well in their oddly segregationist but utterly legal effort.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, there are notes of free-marketeering to be found in between the lines in the story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which brings me to my actual response.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Go with God, Freedom, Georgia.  Hold that free-market thought, and you have every chance of doing very well.   But if you wind up going with the soft-socialism that much of the Black Democrat political mainstream pushes, you might &#8211; will &#8211; have problems.  Try to avoid that&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is better advice than NPR or most of its listeners are going to give. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This NPR story &#8211; about a group of black families buying property in Georgia to try to create a black, utopian city &#8211; is full of unspoken, and semi-spoken, assumptions that Honky is going to mess the whole thing up. Speaking as a person of honk, I wish them all well in their oddly segregationist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80091","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=80091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80098,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80091\/revisions\/80098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}