{"id":8611,"date":"2009-08-30T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2009-08-30T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:34:09","slug":"shakesville-on-ted-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8611","title":{"rendered":"Shakesville on Ted Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/abw.jpg\" width=\"87\" height=\"100\" alt=\"shakesville-on-ted-kennedy\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Senator Edward Kennedy was a tough guy. He was smart, tenacious, opinionated, strong in body, mind, and spirit. And I think because he was such a tough guy, he won&#8217;t mind if I don&#8217;t share my real and uncensored thoughts on the occasion of his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Teddy, as he was known, was privileged, in every sense of the word. And he made liberal use of his privilege, in ways I admired and ways I did not. The terrible bargain we all seem to have made with Teddy is that we overlooked the occasions when he invoked his privilege as a powerful and well-connected man from a prominent family, because of the career he made using that same privilege to try to make the world a better place for the people dealt a different lot.<\/p>\n<p>Twice, Teddy did despicable things with his privilege, very publicly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/teddy.html\">Read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also: co-signed.<\/p>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/2009\/08\/30\/shakesville-on-ted-kennedy\/\">Shakesville on Ted Kennedy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/abw.jpg\" width=\"87\" height=\"100\" alt=\"shakesville-on-ted-kennedy\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nSenator Edward Kennedy was a tough guy. He was smart, tenacious, opinionated, strong in body, mind, and spirit. And I think because he was such a tough guy, he won&#8217;t mind if I don&#8217;t share my real and uncensored thoughts on the occasion of his passing.<br \/>\nTeddy, as he was known, was privileged, in every sense [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" style=\"3px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/2009\/08\/30\/shakesville-on-ted-kennedy\/\">Shakesville on Ted Kennedy<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}