{"id":531,"date":"2003-12-13T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:07:12","slug":"531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/13\/531\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the Racial Sensitivity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/sports\/columnists.nsf\/Jeff+Gordon\/96B85F43A907BA4586256DFA001A0DD5?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Mizzou's+Mess%3A+What+could+happen+next%3F\" target=\"new\">reports on the Ricky Clemons scandal at University of Missouri<\/a>, and relates this anecdote about <a href=\"http:\/\/mutigers.ocsn.com\/genrel\/stewart_ed00.html\" target=\"new\">Ed Stewart<\/a>, an assistant athletic supporter or something:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ed come home, every time he come home, he be like, &#8216;Them crackers shaking. They going crazy. They don&#8217;t know what to do. They shaking. They can&#8217;t talk to Ricky. They&#8217;re like some crackheads running around there.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How sweet.  He lets out some racial epithets, and the johnking <i>St. Louis Post-Democrat<\/i> <b>publishes it<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven forbid a white person say any six letter word that begins with n, ends with r, and has a double consonant in it.  Were I to say I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabiscoworld.com\/nutterbutter\/\" target=\"new\">Nutter Butters<\/a>, certain segments of the population think I am deni-<i><b>oppressing<\/b><\/i> not only members of a different race, but the women therein.<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the sensitivity for <i>my<\/i> easily-bruised feelings?  Why are <i>cracker<\/i>, <i>gaijin<\/i>, <i>bleach blood<\/i>, and <i>haole<\/i> allowed and <i>nigger<\/i> isn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>Rhetorical question.  It&#8217;s because we&#8217;re crackers and deserve the abuse.  I matriculated with a degree in English.  I <i>learned<\/i> these things in college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on the Ricky Clemons scandal at University of Missouri, and relates this anecdote about Ed Stewart, an assistant athletic supporter or something: &#8220;Ed come home, every time he come home, he be like, &#8216;Them crackers shaking. They going crazy. They don&#8217;t know what to do. They shaking. They can&#8217;t talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22242,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/22242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}