{"id":253,"date":"2013-04-19T03:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T07:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theroacheshavenoking.com\/RoachesBlog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2013-04-19T03:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T07:43:25","slug":"dont-call-me-dark-skinned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Don’t call me dark-skinned!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al Sharpton was outraged that the teen sought for questioning in the Boston bombing was referred to as “dark-skinned.” The use of such a term was “coded,\u00a0offensive language.” \u00a0It was “shameful.” It was “useless information that borders on inflammatory.”<\/p>\n

Reverend Al is never afraid to call it as he sees it, and as usual he’s absolutely right. \u00a0This fellow is not dark-skinned.<\/p>\n

\"Boston<\/p>\n

If you saw him with this other guy, the only way you could tell them apart would be by counting their microphones.<\/p>\n

\"justin-bieber\"<\/p>\n

I understand how the kid feels. That kind of shit happens to cockroaches all the time. Last summer\u00a0I was in the yard.<\/p>\n

This is me. (Not my best shot, but not bad.)<\/p>\n

\"Numbers\"<\/p>\n

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I was hanging out with this guy. We’re not really friends. It’s more of a casual thing, like: “How’s it going?” “Good. \u00a0You?” “Good.” “Cool.” It’s hard to be around him, he’s so ugly. Eyes like a moldy potato.<\/p>\n

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\"orthodera\"<\/p>\n

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The human couple walks out the back door. The guy has a can of Raid in his hand. Always looking for something to kill. The woman looks over and says, Spray him! \u00a0He says, Which one? \u00a0She says, The dark one!<\/p>\n

And without explaining anything to me, without asking me a single question, he spits out a stream of poison that just missed me. Greenie thought it was hilarious. I could hear him laughing as I ran.<\/p>\n

It was a goddamned, useless, inflammatory descriptor, that’s what it was. I wouldn’t have minded so much if the Homo sapiens had said, Shoot the Blattella germanica!<\/p>\n

But to call me dark? It’s just not right.<\/p>\n

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Al Sharpton was outraged that the teen sought for questioning in the Boston bombing was referred to as “dark-skinned.” The use of such a term was “coded,\u00a0offensive language.” \u00a0It was “shameful.” It was “useless information that borders on inflammatory.” Reverend … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}