{"id":23882,"date":"2017-08-15T03:13:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23882"},"modified":"2017-08-15T03:20:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:20:20","slug":"did-we-elect-a-flaming-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23882","title":{"rendered":"Did we elect a flaming racist?"},"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>Follow me through this sequence for a brief moment.<\/p>\n<p>* A riot breaks out in Charlottesville, Va., when counter protesters objected to white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue. Three people died. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, issues a tepid statement that talks of &#8220;many sides&#8221; being guilty of inciting violence.<\/p>\n<p>* Two days later, after getting pounded by, um, <em>many sides<\/em>, Trump finally issues a statement condemning by name the white racist groups associated with the riot.<\/p>\n<p>* Today, Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned from the President&#8217;s Manufacturing Council over the president&#8217;s failure to respond appropriately to the race-based riot in Virginia. It took Trump all of <em>54 minutes<\/em> to fire off a snark-laden tweet that suggests Frazier could now spend more time to deal with &#8220;rip-off drug prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Later in the day, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank quits the same council. Plank cited the same reasons as Frazier. Trump remained quiet via Twitter. No criticism of Plank. <em>Nothin&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is important, too: <em>Frazier is black; Plank is white.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I need some help on this one. Why do you suppose the president was so quick on the Twitter trigger finger regarding Frazier&#8217;s resignation, but has remained silent on Plank&#8217;s decision to quit? Is there a relationship between those responses and the president&#8217;s initial public reaction to the violence?<\/p>\n<p>Is it a coincidence? Or are there some motives that need careful examination? I&#8217;m just askin&#8217;, man.<\/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>Follow me through this sequence for a brief moment. * A riot breaks out in Charlottesville, Va., when counter protesters objected to white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue. Three people died. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, issues a tepid statement that talks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did we elect a flaming racist?<\/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":[7240,1424,2692],"class_list":["post-23882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charlottesville-riot","tag-donald-trump","tag-kkk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882","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=23882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23884,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882\/revisions\/23884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}