{"id":12158,"date":"2009-11-23T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/23\/can-a-black-man-vote-against-obamacare\/"},"modified":"2009-11-23T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T11:54:00","slug":"can-a-black-man-vote-against-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/23\/can-a-black-man-vote-against-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Black Man Vote Against Obamacare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">If a black congressman were to vote against a Democrat health care reform proposal, could he call himself a black man?&#0160; According to <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/68451-jackson-you-cant-vote-against-healthcare-and-call-yourself-a-black-man\"><font face=\"Georgia\">this source<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats\u2019 signature healthcare bill.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">\u201cWe even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama,\u201d Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. \u201cYou can\u2019t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Brother Jesse apparently thinks that it is somehow inscribed into the very essence of being black that one be a leftist.<\/font><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">When we conservatives label libs and lefties as loons, it is this sort of preternatural idiocy that we have in mind.&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a black congressman were to vote against a Democrat health care reform proposal, could he call himself a black man?&#0160; According to this source: The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats\u2019 signature healthcare bill. \u201cWe even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/23\/can-a-black-man-vote-against-obamacare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can a Black Man Vote Against Obamacare?&#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":[163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","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=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}