{"id":307,"date":"2010-01-11T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2010-01-11T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:56:28","slug":"rj-on-harry-reid-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"RJ on Harry Reid Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man I get so frustrated with the \u201c<em><\/em>government\u201d sometimes. As I sit here in the airport waiting for my flight back to Los Angeles I hear on the news that the senate majority leader said something stupid about Barack Obama being electable because he is light skinned and doesn\u2019t have a \u201cnegro\u201d dialect unless he wants one.<\/p>\n<p>I should probably state that I too am African American, significantly darker than Barack Obama, and I also do not have a \u201cnegro\u201d dialect, unless I want one. I heard this and thought, \u201cBFD the man is speaking the truth in a very blunt way.\u201d But of course next come the republicans comparing it to Trent Lott\u2019s 2002 comments. And then on top of that they have the Cajones to say that Harry Reid should resign because Trent Lott was forced to resign.<\/p>\n<p>As an African American, I must say that Trent Lott\u2019s comments are much worse. Trent Lott basically said that he wished that in 1948 a president that would have made sure that I would be looking at \u201cwhites only\u201d and \u201cColored People\u201d signs was elected.\u00a0 Oh yes, that is so comparable to a blunt statement of fact.<\/p>\n<p>Gah I am so annoyed. Whatever as soon as I get home and start working on Omega Supreme\u2019s new engine all of this frustration will melt away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man I get so frustrated with the \u201cgovernment\u201d sometimes. As I sit here in the airport waiting for my flight back to Los Angeles I hear on the news that the senate majority leader said something stupid about Barack Obama being electable because he is light skinned and doesn\u2019t have a \u201cnegro\u201d dialect unless he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}