{"id":3677,"date":"2005-09-27T18:56:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T01:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/09\/27\/dem-coloreds-shaw-be-crazy\/"},"modified":"2005-09-27T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T01:56:54","slug":"dem-coloreds-shaw-be-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/dem-coloreds-shaw-be-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem coloreds shaw be crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe latest excuse for the Katrina media riot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-rumors27sep27,0,5492806,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">is all about race:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTimes-Picayune Editor Jim Amoss cited telephone breakdowns as a primary cause of reporting errors, but said the fact that most evacuees were poor African Americans also played a part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the dome and Convention Center had harbored large numbers of middle class white people,&#8221; Amoss said, &#8220;it would not have been a fertile ground for this kind of rumor-mongering.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I live in a part of country bereft of black people (Pacific Northwest) I can&#8217;t comment on this except to say it strikes me as rather remarkable. I mean, this guy works for a newspaper that can&#8217;t tell what&#8217;s happening right before its eyes, yet he feels competent to analyze an alternate reality that doesn&#8217;t even exist?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I forgot, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/26\/correcting-the-facts-and-missing-the-truth\/\">facts are commodities, we want lessons to live by<\/a>.&#8221;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest excuse for the Katrina media riot is all about race: Times-Picayune Editor Jim Amoss cited telephone breakdowns as a primary cause of reporting errors, but said the fact that most evacuees were poor African Americans also played a part. &#8220;If the dome and Convention Center had harbored large numbers of middle class white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/dem-coloreds-shaw-be-crazy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dem coloreds shaw be crazy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Xj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}