{"id":793,"date":"2007-08-27T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T15:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2007-12-08T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:27:15","slug":"andy-rooney-blasted-for-racist-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"Andy Rooney Blasted For Racist Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/27\/business\/media\/27rooney.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">From the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today&rsquo;s baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me,&rdquo; Mr. Rooney wrote in the second paragraph of the column, which appeared in The Stamford Times of Stamford, Conn. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re apparently very good but they haven&rsquo;t caught my interest.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see anything wrong in what Rooney wrote. There&#8217;s no shame in being more interested in people of your ethnic group. White people rarely watch black TV dramas and comedies. There&#8217;s no shame in that. Aside from a handful of stars such as Denzel Washington, films with black leads don&#8217;t attrack much of a non-black audience. There&#8217;s no shame in blacks preferring to see films with black leads and whites preferring to see films with white leads.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: &ldquo;I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today&rsquo;s baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me,&rdquo; Mr. Rooney wrote in the second paragraph of the column, which appeared in The Stamford &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=793\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}