{"id":17189,"date":"2016-09-23T02:31:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T02:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17189"},"modified":"2016-09-23T02:31:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T02:31:11","slug":"protesters-hate-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17189","title":{"rendered":"Protesters &#8216;hate white people&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160921_atm_charlotte_protests_16x9_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17191\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160921_atm_charlotte_protests_16x9_992-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"160921_atm_charlotte_protests_16x9_992\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160921_atm_charlotte_protests_16x9_992-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160921_atm_charlotte_protests_16x9_992-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160921_atm_charlotte_protests_16x9_992.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Pettinger\u00a0must have the most astonishing mind-reading skills imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican congressman from North Carolina has asserted &#8212; rather stupidly, I suggest &#8212; that Charlotte residents who are protesting against the police &#8220;hate white people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. Is that so?<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t go too far with this idiotic statement. Pettinger is commenting on those who are protesting an incident in Charlotte that resulted in the shooting death of an African-American man.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/297372-gop-rep-charlotte-protesters-hate-white-people\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/297372-gop-rep-charlotte-protesters-hate-white-people<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Pettinger said later he regrets making the statement. He said he was responding to what he thought he had heard from protesters.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of utter thoughtlessness, though, cannot be allowed to stand.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman&#8217;s initial statement also included a negative opinion of welfare and of those who receive government benefits. \u201cI mean, yes, it is a welfare state. We have spent trillions on welfare \u2014 we have put people in bondage, so that they can\u2019t be all that they\u2019re capable of being,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Goodness. May we begin to engage our brains before we let loose with our mouths?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Pettinger\u00a0must have the most astonishing mind-reading skills imaginable. The Republican congressman from North Carolina has asserted &#8212; rather stupidly, I suggest &#8212; that Charlotte residents who are protesting against the police &#8220;hate white people.&#8221; Hmmm. Is that so? I won&#8217;t go too far with this idiotic statement. Pettinger is commenting on those who are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Protesters &#8216;hate white people&#8217;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6591,3798,6592],"class_list":["post-17189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charlotte-protests","tag-race-relations","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17192,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189\/revisions\/17192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}