{"id":85299,"date":"2023-06-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85299"},"modified":"2023-06-05T13:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:44:52","slug":"85299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85299","title":{"rendered":"Mojo Nixon Nailed It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Joe Doakes <s>from Como Park<\/s> emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I am endlessly informed by Liberals that the reason Black students do poorly in school is racism.&nbsp; The teachers, the principals, the entire educational system is against them. If that&#8217;s so, then I must ask: why do we continue to employ racists in those positions?&nbsp; Fire every one of them, hire new people who pledge to do better, and monitor the results.&nbsp; If Black students do better, then Liberals were right.&nbsp; If not, then the problem lies elsewhere and we can stop hearing about racism as the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wrongfully accused and ultimately fired teachers and administrators?&nbsp; They can learn to code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am endlessly informed by Liberals that the reason Black defendants are over-represented in the justice system is racism. The cops, the prosecutors and judges, the entire legal system is against them.&nbsp; If that&#8217;s so, then I must ask: why do we continue to employ racists in those positions?&nbsp; Fire every one of them, hire new people who pledge to do better, and monitor the results. If Blacks do better, then Liberals were right.&nbsp; If not, then the problem lies elsewhere and we can quit hearing about racism as the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wrongfully accused and ultimately fired cops, lawyers and judges?&nbsp; They can learn to code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We cannot continue to blame racists for society&#8217;s problems while we continue to harbor racists in their positions of power.&nbsp; A wholesale makeover of society is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;re thinking that&#8217;s too ambitious.&nbsp; Maybe you&#8217;re thinking we should start small, a pilot project so to speak, to see how it goes.&nbsp; I have a suggestion, lifted from Henry VI, Part 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The first thing we do, let&#8217;s kill all the lawyers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Doakes No Longer in Como Park<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If progs didn&#8217;t have racism\/white supremacy\/toxic masculinity to deflect to, they&#8217;d have to work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I am endlessly informed by Liberals that the reason Black students do poorly in school is racism.&nbsp; The teachers, the principals, the entire educational system is against them. If that&#8217;s so, then I must ask: why do we continue to employ racists in those positions?&nbsp; Fire every one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85299","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=85299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85301,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85299\/revisions\/85301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}