{"id":7892,"date":"2009-06-06T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7892"},"modified":"2009-06-06T12:24:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:44:29","slug":"the-modern-republican-party-sure-seems-to-have-some-deep-seated-racial-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7892","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Republican Party Sure Seems to Have Some Deep-Seated Racial Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so let\u2019s say that\u00a0<em>National Review<\/em>\u00a0decided to do a racist\u00a0caricature of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, but they decided to do a racist caricature that changed her race? Would that be better?<\/p>\n<p>That may seem like an insane question to ask, but you haven\u2019t met insane until you\u2019ve met the\u00a0<em>National Review<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"sotomayor.gif\" href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sotomayor.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sotomayor.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a title=\"sotomayor.gif\" href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sotomayor.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see, it\u2019s funny because\u2026um\u2026all those brown people look alike? Yeah, maybe that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>On occasion I\u2019ve said, sardonically, \u201cGee, and the GOP wonders why they have trouble attracting non-white voters.\u201d But they don\u2019t wonder that, really. They\u2019ve embraced racism in a big bear hug, and they\u2019re not going to let go of it, even as it pulls them into the electoral abyss.<\/p>\n<p>See also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/05\/speechless-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cara<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\/archives\/015898.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ann<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pandagon.net\/index.php\/site\/comments\/theyre_color_blind_you_see\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so let\u2019s say that\u00a0National Review\u00a0decided to do a racist\u00a0caricature of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, but they decided to do a racist caricature that changed her race? Would that be better? That may seem like an insane question to ask, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,93,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-supreme-court-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}