{"id":10421,"date":"2011-08-23T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/23\/tea-party-racism-again\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T16:57:11","slug":"tea-party-racism-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/23\/tea-party-racism-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party &#8216;Racism&#8217; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/22\/139859336\/how-close-are-we-to-realizing-kings-dream\" target=\"_self\">NPR interview<\/a> of Julian Bond:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">SIEGEL: Some people read into the Tea Party&#39;s almost neuralgic reaction to government spending, a sense that white people figure black people benefit disproportionately from federal programs. Do you suspect a racial subtext to that whole argument?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">BOND: Absolutely. And I&#39;m not saying that all of the Tea Party members are racist. Not at all. I don&#39;t think anybody says that. But I think there&#39;s an element of racial animus there and the feeling that some white people have that these black people are now getting something that I&#39;m not getting and I should be getting it, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Yet another reason to defund NPR.&#0160; Neuralgic reaction to government spending? How obtuse can an obtuse liberal be?&#0160; Companion posts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/03\/the-bigger-the-government-the-more-to-fight-over-the-npr-case.html\" target=\"_self\">The Bigger the Government, the More to Fight Over: The NPR Case<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/03\/national-public-radio-needsyour-support.html\" target=\"_self\">National Public Radio Needs Your Support!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/03\/the-tit-of-the-state-krauthammer-versus-nprs-totenberg-.html\" target=\"_self\">&#39;The Tit ofthe State&#39;: Krauthammer versus NPR&#39;s&#0160;Totenberg<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from an NPR interview of Julian Bond: SIEGEL: Some people read into the Tea Party&#39;s almost neuralgic reaction to government spending, a sense that white people figure black people benefit disproportionately from federal programs. Do you suspect a racial subtext to that whole argument? BOND: Absolutely. And I&#39;m not saying that all of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/23\/tea-party-racism-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tea Party &#8216;Racism&#8217; Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}