{"id":53220,"date":"2014-03-30T09:34:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53220"},"modified":"2014-03-30T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T17:45:34","slug":"i-dont-want-to-seem-racist-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53220","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want To Seem Racist, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a black acquaintance who I often see leaving a certain establishment with items that I do not believe are his. When I question him in my jocular tone about why he&#8217;s carrying away these goods, he betrays no conscience and no concern. Instead, he makes excellent jokes. I don&#8217;t want to say anything to anyone else in case that would seem racist. And none of these items are mine.<\/p>\n<p>A liberal Jewish friend says: &#8220;You should be ashamed of yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I should be ashamed for not speaking up about the theft or I should be ashamed for noticing the theft?<\/p>\n<p>* My black rapper friend met a white girl at karaoke with great pipes. She wanted to get into the music industry. He had connections. He invited her to a party. He went out on the porch and smoked some herb. &#8220;There&#8217;s something you should know about me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Oh no,&#8221; he said, &#8220;you&#8217;re a man.&#8221; &#8220;No,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I&#8217;m NYPD.&#8221; &#8220;The po-lice?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Oh no. I can&#8217;t take you around the music industry. Nobody will feel comfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a black acquaintance who I often see leaving a certain establishment with items that I do not believe are his. When I question him in my jocular tone about why he&#8217;s carrying away these goods, he betrays no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53224,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53220\/revisions\/53224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}