{"id":3464,"date":"2013-08-25T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2013-08-25T08:51:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T12:51:03","slug":"so-glad-to-live-in-post-racial-america-am-i-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/25\/so-glad-to-live-in-post-racial-america-am-i-right\/","title":{"rendered":"So Glad to Live in Post-Racial America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice that the staff of the Wild Wings Restaurant in North Charleston, South Carolina, could celebrate the anniversary of the March on Washington, and Martin Luther King&#8217;s famous &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech about how we some day will all sit down together in peace, no matter our color, by demonstrating the deeply embedded blind racism and hatred that seems still to control the minds and emotions of so many Americans. One White woman informs the manager she is &#8220;uncomfortable&#8221; about a party of 25 Black people being seated in the same room with her. So the manager throws the Black people out of the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>No racism involved, of course. The restaurant tells us that on it&#8217;s Facebook page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WildWingCafeNorthCharleston\">Wild Wings Restaurant North Charleston<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After all, President Obama is hated by these same people for &#8220;Being President While Black&#8221;. The GOP is running around the country during the August recess telling their racist supporters they will find some way to impeach him, although they have not found any grounds. But then, they were saying that as soon as started his campaign. After all, didn&#8217;t you notice, he is BLACK.<\/p>\n<p>Think this is off the wall? Exaggerated? Well, yesterday bow tie dripping Tucker Carlson&#8217;s web site The Daily Caller publishes a piece on the new dog added to the White House household, and sums the article up with this sentence: &#8220;<b>The Obamas do not have any white dogs.<\/b>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No racism here, obviously. Just clear, concise reporting of the facts. &#8220;<b>The Obamas do not have any white dogs.<\/b>&#8221; How could anyone possible hear dog whistle&#8217;s of racism in the distance?<\/p>\n<p>And Maureen Dowd ended her column on the impeachment clown posse in the NYTimes yesterday with this statement: &#8220;<b>For some of the rodeo clowns clamoring for impeachment around the country, Barack Obama\u2019s real crime is presiding while black. <\/b>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA group of 25 African Americans waited two hours to get in a Wild Wing Cafe restaurant in North Charleston, South Carolina, only to be asked to leave almost immediately after entering the restaurant because a white patron felt \u201cthreatened\u201d by them. One member of the group took his complaint to Facebook when the corporate office of the restaurant did not call him back.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAccording to Brown:<\/p>\n<p>    <i>She (the shift manager) said there\u2019s a situation where one of our customers feels threatened by your party, so she asked us not to seat you in our section, which totally alarmed all of us because we\u2019re sitting there peaceably for two hours. Obviously, if we were causing any conflict, we would have been ejected out of the place hours before.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A member of Brown\u2019s group then begin to videotape the situation. That\u2019s when the shift manager asked them to leave and refused to seat them.<\/p>\n<p>As Brown explained:<\/p>\n<p>    <i>I asked her \u2013 I want to be clear with you. I said, so you\u2019re telling me I have to leave. She said I have a right to deny you service. I said so you\u2019re asking me to leave because you\u2019re upset because he was recording you, after we\u2019ve waited for two hours, and after you\u2019ve already pretty much discriminated on us, and she answered yes.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/progressivepopulist.org\/2013\/08\/23\/blacks-asked-to-leave-south-carolina-restaurant-because-white-customer-felt-threatened-video\/\">Blacks Asked To Leave South Carolina Restaurant Because White Customer Felt Threatened<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere\u2019s a brand new adorable member of the First Family, everyone, and if you read the Washington Post or the Huffington Post or Buzzfeed or whatever you\u2019ll probably see all kinds of listicles and memes about how cute it is.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a dog named \u201cSunny.\u201d Apparently it\u2019s a girl and it was born in 2012 in Michigan, where the unemployment rate was 8.8 percent last month. It is the Obamas\u2019 second dog, after \u201cBo.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWith the addition of Sunny, the Obamas now have two black Portuguese water dogs.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Obamas do not have any white dogs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/08\/19\/the-obamas-got-a-new-puppy-everyone\/&#8221;The Obamas got a new puppy, everyone!<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nON the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech, Kerry Bentivolio, a Michigan congressman, has a dream, too: to impeach the nation\u2019s first black president. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cIf I could write that bill and submit it, it would be a dream come true,\u201d the freshman Republican told a local G.O.P. club meeting Monday in Birmingham, Mich., in a video posted on YouTube and reported by BuzzFeed.<\/p>\n<p>Bentivolio graciously conceded that he\u2019d have to come up with some grounds first. \u201cI went back to my office and I have had lawyers come in,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd these are lawyers, well \u2014 Ph.D.\u2019s in history \u2014 I said, \u2018Tell me how I can impeach the president of the United States. What evidence do you have?\u2019 You\u2019ve got to have the evidence.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBentivolio is the perfect avatar of the impeachment fever gripping a G.O.P. that\u2019s unmoored from reality, given that he once admitted in a court deposition, \u201cI have a problem figuring out which one I really am, Santa Claus or Kerry Bentivolio.\u201d That\u2019s why he sometimes used the pronoun \u201cwe.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n The Democrats never impeached W. and they had real grounds: starting a war on false premises and sanctioning torture. \u201cThe Republican Party is in a constant struggle between its ego and its id,\u201d Axelrod says, \u201cand the id has mostly won out lately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t the president who should leave. It\u2019s the misguided lawmakers trying to drive him out.<\/p>\n<p><b>For some of the rodeo clowns clamoring for impeachment around the country, Barack Obama\u2019s real crime is presiding while black. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/25\/opinion\/sunday\/reindeer-games.html?hpw&#038;_r=1&#038;\">Reindeer Games By MAUREEN DOWD<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice that the staff of the Wild Wings Restaurant in North Charleston, South Carolina, could celebrate the anniversary of the March on Washington, and Martin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}