{"id":88396,"date":"2024-09-25T06:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88396"},"modified":"2024-09-25T06:10:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T11:10:47","slug":"for-the-record-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88396","title":{"rendered":"For The Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>It was 1980.  Thomas Sowell &#8211; one of the greatest economic and political minds of the the past century &#8211; was being considered for a role  in the Reagan White House.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which provoked a, er, <em>predictable <\/em>response.<\/p>\n<p>Which prompted Sowell to give the only response it deserved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 1980 media rumors swirled that Thomas Sowell was joining the incoming Reagan administration (he wasn&#39;t)<br><br>This drew severe backlash from the Civil Rights establishment<br><br>One NAACP official called him a &quot;House N*gger&quot;<br><br>Sowell&#39;s scathing reply still resonates today <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aSLhFwJCg2\">pic.twitter.com\/aSLhFwJCg2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Clifton Duncan (@cliftonaduncan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cliftonaduncan\/status\/1837890852783640777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s the same response needed next time some smug white progressive calls you a &#8220;Nazi&#8221; or &#8220;Fascist&#8221; for being a conservative.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, for that matter, when some sm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1980. Thomas Sowell &#8211; one of the greatest economic and political minds of the the past century &#8211; was being considered for a role in the Reagan White House. Which provoked a, er, predictable response. Which prompted Sowell to give the only response it deserved: And it&#8217;s the same response needed next time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88396","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=88396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88400,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88396\/revisions\/88400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}