{"id":3295,"date":"2010-07-14T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/the-asshat-of-history\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:49:05","slug":"the-asshat-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/the-asshat-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Asshat of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool \u2013 or racist \u2013 than to speak and remove all doubt. The following quote shows how callous and ignorant the speaker is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128505089&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1003\">NAACP, Tea Party Volley Over Racism Claims : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;You&#8217;re dealing with people who are professional race-baiters, who make a very good living off this kind of thing. <font style=\"background-color: #a5b592\">They make more money off of race than any slave trader ever.<\/font> It&#8217;s time groups like the NAACP went to the trash heap of history where they belong with all the other vile racist groups that emerged in our history,&quot; Mark Williams, a national spokesman for the Tea Party Express, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128505089&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1003\">NAACP, Tea Party Volley Over Racism Claims : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool \u2013 or racist \u2013 than to speak and remove all doubt. The following quote shows how callous and ignorant the speaker is. NAACP, Tea Party Volley Over Racism Claims : NPR &quot;You&#8217;re dealing with people who are professional race-baiters, who make a very good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/the-asshat-of-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Asshat of History<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}