{"id":4664,"date":"2008-08-12T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T23:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2008-08-12T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T23:11:52","slug":"what-do-we-want-a-five-part-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4664","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Want? A Five Part Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jpIT0PuafLg\/SKIXsV52RWI\/AAAAAAAAAKM\/IDdTHNyYkYA\/s1600-h\/August%2Bpromo%2B2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jpIT0PuafLg\/SKIXsV52RWI\/AAAAAAAAAKM\/IDdTHNyYkYA\/s320\/August%2Bpromo%2B2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I got this e-mail from the blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/simplifythepositive.blogspot.com\/\">Brown Man<\/a>, check it out:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard a constant refrain lately \u2013 at work, on TV, on the internet \u2013 from some of my black brethren about Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p><em>He doesn&#8217;t need to &#8220;lecture black people&#8221; about personal responsibility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He should be mindful of the tone he uses when he speaks to us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He&#8217;s just saying what racist white people want to hear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He sacrifices black people to score points with whites and other non-blacks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was offended by his criticism of black people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What gives him the right to call anybody out about anything?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since he doesn&#8217;t have anything good to say about black people he shouldn&#8217;t say anything at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do we want from this man?<\/p>\n<p>Over the next five days, the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/simplifythepositive.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Brown Man Thinking Hard<\/strong><\/a> presents &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/simplifythepositive.blogspot.com\/\">What Do We Want?<\/a>&#8221; 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about personal responsibility.<br \/>\nHe should be mindful of the tone he uses when he speaks [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4664\">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":[93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","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=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}