{"id":4439,"date":"2008-05-19T20:28:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T03:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2008-05-19T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T03:28:02","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-all-in-the-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4439","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s All In the Blood??"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p>Ding, at <a href=\"http:\/\/bitchphd.blogspot.com\">Bitch Ph.D.<\/a> blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/bitchphd.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/who-gets-to-be-american-jeremiad.html\">in response to a recent article<\/a> that Kathleen Parker wrote about how recent immigrants might not &#8220;understand&#8221; American values due to the fact that they haven&#8217;t been here that long:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buchanan.org\/blog\/?p=969\">Pat Buchanan wants me to &#8216;be grateful.&#8217;<\/a> He wants me to shut up and be grateful I live in a place that suffers from the worst case of degenerate racism, a place that makes no significant movement toward recognition of or reconciliation for its white supremacist past. But here&#8217;s our chance! Here&#8217;s a moment &#8211; a gorgeous, breathtaking moment! And what do we do with this moment? We say he is not (and by extension, <em>we<\/em> are not &#8211; <em><strong>I<\/strong><\/em> am not) a &#8216;full-blooded American&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, America, you make we wanna <em>holler<\/em>!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/categories\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/tags\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/676\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=676&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ding, at Bitch Ph.D. blogs in response to a recent article that Kathleen Parker wrote about how recent immigrants might not &#8220;understand&#8221; American values due to the fact that they haven&#8217;t been here that long:<br \/>\nPat Buchanan wants me to &#8216;be grateful.&#8217; He wants me to shut up and be grateful I live in a place [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-migrant-rights-etc","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}