{"id":21049,"date":"2015-06-19T17:10:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21049"},"modified":"2015-06-19T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T21:10:25","slug":"why-conservatives-still-wont-admit-that-charleston-was-a-racist-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/06\/19\/why-conservatives-still-wont-admit-that-charleston-was-a-racist-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Conservatives Still Won&#8217;t Admit That Charleston Was A Racist Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Talking Points Memo<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/cafe\/conservatives-dont-know-why-charleston-happened\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Talking Points Memo article\">Why Conservatives Still Won&#8217;t Admit That Charleston Was A Racist Crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt this point, Roof\u2019s bigotry has become clear in myriad ways. Yet as late as this afternoon, when cornered by a reporter and asked if the shooting was racially motivated, presidential candidate Jeb Bush said \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d This means Bush is either incapable of basic logic, or he has willfully decided to blind and deafen himself to one of the nation\u2019s biggest problems.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Further in the article the author, Aurin Squire, mentioned something that pokes me in the eye when I see it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt is no secret that one of the baubles of the conservative movement is the Confederate flag, which appeared on Roof\u2019s license plate. It is a symbol of white supremacy and slavery, and it is also a symbol that is a part of South Carolina&#8217;s official government as the flag flies in the capital. When questioned about her state\u2019s continued support for it, Governor Haley shrugged it off.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Southerners can give a wink and a nod, or maybe a shrug, when they tell you what the flag means to them.  I don&#8217;t care if they believe in their own bs or not.  I know what it means to me.  To Sharon, it means rescind your offer on a house in Florida when the neighborhood has too many of these flags.  The Southern reaction to our decision on the house would probably be, &#8220;Good.  I guess the flag served its purpose.&#8221;  It is hard enough to live amongst a bunch of central Massachusetts conservatives.  In the south, many of these people would be thought of as flaming liberal Yankees, but some of them would be thought of as kindred spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo has the article Why Conservatives Still Won&#8217;t Admit That Charleston Was A Racist Crime. At this point, Roof\u2019s bigotry has become clear in myriad ways. Yet as late as this afternoon, when cornered by a reporter and asked if the shooting was racially motivated, presidential candidate Jeb Bush said \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21050,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions\/21050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}