{"id":4580,"date":"2018-04-23T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/black-privilege\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T13:02:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:02:05","slug":"black-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/black-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><br \/><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0223c84566fe200c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"White guilt\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0223c84566fe200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0223c84566fe200c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"White guilt\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/patriotpost.us\/articles\/55453-starbucks-surrenders-to-the-mob\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">story at Starbucks<\/a>&#0160;isn\u2019t racism but entitlement. The two men felt entitled to loiter on private property without buying anything. They decided that the rules didn\u2019t apply to them. And apparently they were correct.\u201d \u2014Matt Walsh<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I love hanging out in coffee houses, reading, talking, and most of all, playing chess. I fancy myself a strong coffee house player, which means that I&#39;m a patzer, but I&#39;ll clean your clock if you learned the game from your uncle. (Full disclosure: I&#39;m in the B category; highest USCF rating = 1720. I beat Reppert once in a coffee house (on the White side of a Smith-Morra gambit) and two or three experts (2000-2200) at tournaments.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I consider myself entitled to take up space only if I have purchased something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Being black is not <em>carte blanche<\/em> for bad behavior.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0223c84566ea200c-pi\"><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe&#0160;story at Starbucks&#0160;isn\u2019t racism but entitlement. The two men felt entitled to loiter on private property without buying anything. They decided that the rules didn\u2019t apply to them. And apparently they were correct.\u201d \u2014Matt Walsh I love hanging out in coffee houses, reading, talking, and most of all, playing chess. I fancy myself a strong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/black-privilege\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Privilege&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","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=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}