{"id":385,"date":"2008-10-25T09:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2009-04-20T21:45:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T01:45:07","slug":"the-racial-issue-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/25\/the-racial-issue-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Racial Issue, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I posted a short piece about the issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/20\/the-racial-issue\/\">racism<\/a> in the campaign for president between John McCain and Barack Obama.  Since that time, the issue has become more prominent and a teacher in Florida has been suspended from his job for writing <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/items\/89369149_florida_teacher_uses_n_word_against_obama\">CHANGE<\/a> on the whiteboard and then detailing what that word, when used as an acronym, means.  I learned about this incident yesterday morning when a co-worker asked us what the word meant and then proceeded to tell us. He prefaced his remarks by explaining that it was a &#8220;joke&#8221;.  The joke was on him, in my opinion, because I have no room in my heart for bigots.<\/p>\n<p>This video is a powerful indictment of such bigoted thinking, from Richard Trumka, who is the Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7QIGJTHdH50&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01&#038;border=1&#038;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7QIGJTHdH50&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01&#038;border=1&#038;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I posted a short piece about the issue of racism in the campaign for president between John McCain and Barack Obama. Since that time, the issue has become more prominent and a teacher in Florida has been <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/25\/the-racial-issue-again\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}