{"id":1895,"date":"2008-11-10T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T08:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2008-11-10T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T08:59:10","slug":"who-we-white-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"Who &#8220;we&#8221;, white man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed over the weekend<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1683\"> a gloomy post<\/a> I had made back in August saying that Obama would certainly lose because of racism. I hoped no one else would notice. But then, this morning, I spotted the voting figures referenced on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyrevolution.com\/mt\/archives\/002685.html\">A Tiny Revolution<\/a> which suggest that white racism was a huge factor: it was just outweighed by non-white racism. 43% of American whites voted for Obama; one per cent up on Gore&#8217;s figures eight years ago. But the non-white vote as grown, and was emphatically non-Republican, too. <\/p>\n\n<p>I think we can take it as conclusive proof that God really does have <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/rachmanblog\/2008\/11\/was-obamas-victory-written-in-the-stars\/\">a purpose for Sarah Palin<\/a>. Without her, Obama might still have lost. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed over the weekend a gloomy post I had made back in August saying that Obama would certainly lose because of racism. I hoped no one else would notice. But then, this morning, I spotted the voting figures referenced &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1895\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}