{"id":470399,"date":"2010-03-25T08:56:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80415"},"modified":"2010-03-25T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:56:46","slug":"%e2%80%98listen-up-buckwheat%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/470399","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Listen Up, Buckwheat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mcclatchydc.com\/washington\/2010\/03\/gop-candidate-for-florida-congressional-seat-calls-obama-buckwheat.html\">this<\/a> under news stories that would be a whole lot more damaging if the culprits were not themselves African-American.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Corey Poitier, who is running for U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek&#8217;s seat, delivered a passionate speech against the health care reform bill Monday night to Broward County Republicans. During the speech, Poitier addressed the President by saying &#8216;Listen up, Buckwheat\u2026&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t meaning him any harm. Maybe it was a little insensitive,&#8221; Poitier said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a term that my brother and I use. It was kind of a way of saying, &#8216;dummy,&#8217; like when I say to my brother, &#8216;Hey, Buckwheat, cut that out.&#8217; That&#8217;s what it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under news stories that would be a whole lot more damaging if the culprits were not themselves African-American. Corey Poitier, who is running for U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek&#8217;s seat, delivered a passionate speech against the health care reform bill Monday night to Broward County Republicans. During the speech, Poitier addressed the President by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}