{"id":6002,"date":"2012-02-14T22:48:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T03:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2012-02-14T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T04:27:20","slug":"it-was-set-up-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6002","title":{"rendered":"It was set up to fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was trying to find Fox 21 News tonight I ended up on WGN. That&#8217;s Chicago&#8217;s premier local television station. By coincidence they had interviews with some of Chicago&#8217;s own Red Tails. Duluth has one, Mr. Gomer, a black aviator who flew in the Army Air Corp during WW II.<\/p>\n<p>Duluthians should recall that the George Lucas Movie <strong>Red Tails<\/strong> that recently appeared in town at the Zinema Theater. After some of my recent posts on the shabby treatment of African Americans I thought it would be topical of me to link to the WGN piece. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgntv.com\/topic\/wgntv-tuskegee-airmen-chicagos-tuskgee-airmen-share-their-stories-20120214,0,7846531.story\">It won&#8217;t take long to watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of Chicago&#8217;s Red Tails told WGN the program was set up to fail. You have to understand. Black men were more like chimpanzee&#8217;s and there was no better way to prove it than puting a company of them in the cockpits of airplanes.<\/p>\n<p>Crap. They did exceedingly well. Never mind. They were probably commies or Muslims. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was trying to find Fox 21 News tonight I ended up on WGN. That&#8217;s Chicago&#8217;s premier local television station. By coincidence they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6004,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions\/6004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}