{"id":60385,"date":"2016-09-22T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60385"},"modified":"2016-09-21T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T21:22:02","slug":"not-ready-for-prime-time-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60385","title":{"rendered":"Not Ready For Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">White cop shoots Black youth in view of a million witnesses and store security video.\u00a0 Where are the protests?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Granted, the cop was off-duty, in civilian clothes, on personal business in a shopping center.\u00a0 Granted, the youth was busy slashing shoppers with a knife.\u00a0 Still \u2013 why isn\u2019t this a racial hate crime?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Maybe Somalis born in African who come to America as refugees don\u2019t count as \u201cAfrican-American\u201d but count as \u201cWhite\u201d the way Asians do for college admissions, and therefore this kid is not protest-worthy?\u00a0 Or maybe the kid was a White Somali \u2013 they have them, you know; they sign up at the same place as Hispanics like that guy in Florida. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Maybe St. Cloud is inconveniently far away if you depend on light rail for transportation to the protest?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s just odd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">In point of fact, they don&#8217;t count as &#8220;African-American&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: White cop shoots Black youth in view of a million witnesses and store security video.\u00a0 Where are the protests? \u00a0Granted, the cop was off-duty, in civilian clothes, on personal business in a shopping center.\u00a0 Granted, the youth was busy slashing shoppers with a knife.\u00a0 Still \u2013 why isn\u2019t this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-pc","category-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60386,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60385\/revisions\/60386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}