{"id":12201,"date":"2009-11-18T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/proof-that-i-am-a-native-american-3\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:20:34","slug":"proof-that-i-am-a-native-american-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/proof-that-i-am-a-native-american-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof that I am a Native American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A while back,&#0160;a front page story in&#0160;the &#0160;local rag of record, <em>The Arizona Republic<\/em>, implied &#0160;that one is either a native American, a Black, or an Anglo. Now with my kind of surname, I am certainly no Anglo. And even though I am a &#39;person of color,&#39; my color inclining toward a sort of tanned ruddiness, I am undoubtedly not Black either.<\/p>\n<p>It follows that I am a native American. This conclusion is independently supported by the following argument:<\/p>\n<p>1. I am a native Californian<br \/>2. California is in America<br \/>3. If x is native to locality L, and L is within the boundaries of M, then x is a native M-er.<br \/>Therefore<br \/>I am a native American.<\/p>\n<p>Note that (2) is true whether &#39;America&#39; is taken to refer to the USA or to the continent of North America.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back,&#0160;a front page story in&#0160;the &#0160;local rag of record, The Arizona Republic, implied &#0160;that one is either a native American, a Black, or an Anglo. Now with my kind of surname, I am certainly no Anglo. And even though I am a &#39;person of color,&#39; my color inclining toward a sort of tanned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/proof-that-i-am-a-native-american-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proof that I am a Native American&#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":[242,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201","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=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}