{"id":28846,"date":"2019-10-05T14:07:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28846"},"modified":"2019-10-05T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T19:13:43","slug":"rainy-day-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28846","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Day Racists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s raining when I should be putting up more of Alanna Oswald&#8217;s and my lawnsigns. Oh well. I guess I&#8217;ll chew up a few minutes talking about something equally drenching. Racism today.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to post the picture that the Girls Power group at Denfeld posted on their Facebook page. But with America being plunged into dark times by a President calling out Storm troopers to defend his larceny I don&#8217;t think pretending not to be paranoid would do any favors for the five young black women that David Kirby and I posed with last week after the meeting to discuss issues of poverty. If you can locate it on Facebook you will also find the silly video of me attempting to &#8220;floss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had two long standing acquaintances with whom I&#8217;ve been friendly suddenly reveal themselves to be fully released from PC constraints. In finding this freedom both have used the &#8220;N&#8221; word with me in their communications. In both cases I&#8217;ve told them if they can&#8217;t hold their fingers they should stop writing to me. They can&#8217;t resist taunting me despite this. I&#8217;ve taken to the unhelpful resort of taunting them back.<\/p>\n<p>Today one of them sent me the letter he sent to an Iron Range news paper half-heartedly defending Pete Stauber. If you check the link you can discover his name which to date I&#8217;ve always kept anonymous. He also sent the email to the Duluth News Tribune&#8217;s editor Chuck Frederick. I sent my old acquaintance a terse reply and sent it to Chuck too. I know Chuck is open and honest about the tenterhooks Black Americans live every day. We both had roles in a short video used to promote a movie about Duluth&#8217;s 1920 lynching. I got the bigger role in the video&#8217;s seven minutes. The movie was to be called <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs3duluth.com\/homepage\/2019\/08\/20\/hate-storm-wins-social-awareness-award-at-2019-tylerman-film-festival\/\">&#8220;Hatestorm.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our work: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1nwIgkYzM_Ur0QkC5yfaFcWoYcWbcMhFx\/view\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1nwIgkYzM_Ur0QkC5yfaFcWoYcWbcMhFx\/view<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to my acquaintance&#8217;s letter to the Hibbing paper lamely defending Pete Stauber:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbingmn.com\/opinion\/letters\/stauber-voting-for-rural-way-of-life\/article_37338eea-e645-11e9-a31c-67dacb170996.html?utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=email&#038;utm_campaign=user-share\">https:\/\/www.hibbingmn.com\/opinion\/letters\/stauber-voting-for-rural-way-of-life\/article_37338eea-e645-11e9-a31c-67dacb170996.html?utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=email&#038;utm_campaign=user-share<\/a><br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s my reply after considering my acquaintance&#8217;s defense of &#8220;big shot&#8221; lover, Pete Stauber:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>*******,<\/p>\n<p>Too bad that when you send me emails you can&#8217;t help but call Obama a &#8220;nigger&#8221; therefore sounding no more knowledgeable than this woman. As for Stauber being too arrogant to reply to letters from critics. I don&#8217;t think I agree with you. Stauber has all the franking privileges he needs to explain himself. I think ignoring his critics is simple cowardice.<\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s raining when I should be putting up more of Alanna Oswald&#8217;s and my lawnsigns. Oh well. I guess I&#8217;ll chew up a few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,93,133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28846"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28856,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846\/revisions\/28856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}