{"id":1320,"date":"2014-03-02T08:04:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2014-03-02T08:04:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:04:48","slug":"could-someone-point-out-the-hate-or-racism-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"Could Someone Point Out the &#8220;Hate&#8221; or &#8220;Racism&#8221; Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right wingers have been getting their panties in a knot over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/26\/us\/new-york-spike-lee-gentrification\/\">some recent remarks by Spike Lee.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Really, where? I don&#8217;t see any racial hatred there. There&#8217;s plenty of <em>resentment<\/em> against both a colonialist mentality in more affluent and generally White newcomers, and against a disparity in the quality and level of city services in Black neighborhoods, but that&#8217;s a <em>very<\/em> different thing from asserting that some people are particularly evil or inferior simply because of their race.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually an <em>anti-<\/em>racist rant, taking offense at what genuinely does seem to be an instance of White privilege.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a White guy, and I don&#8217;t feel threatened or attacked by Lee&#8217;s remarks. I can&#8217;t even see how I would be should I happen to live in one of those NYC neighborhoods that Lee mentioned. Criticized, perhaps. But being <em>criticized<\/em> and being <em>hated<\/em> or <em>threatened<\/em> are completely different things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right wingers have been getting their panties in a knot over some recent remarks by Spike Lee. Really, where? I don&#8217;t see any racial hatred there. There&#8217;s plenty of resentment against both a colonialist mentality in more affluent and generally White newcomers, and against a disparity in the quality and level of city services in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}