{"id":9019,"date":"2014-06-25T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2014-06-25T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:44:58","slug":"who-needs-issues-when-youve-got-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/25\/who-needs-issues-when-youve-got-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Who needs issues when you&#8217;ve got race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would say this letter to the editor is &#8220;beyond the pale&#8221;, but that would probably be called racist too.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This one will make your head hurt&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godanriver.com\/opinion\/letters_to_editor\/editorial-reminiscent-of-s\/article_7b83003a-fc03-11e3-a870-0017a43b2370.html\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial reminiscent of 1960s<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Hoo boy. Instead of going over everything that&#8217;s wrong about Tommy Bennett&#8217;s letter, I&#8217;m going to talk about everything that he got right.<\/p>\n<p>(silence)<\/p>\n<p>(more silence)<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s out of the way, I&#8217;ll need a Big Board of Wrongness&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To start with, he talks about &#8220;Danville\u2019s recent assessment of the first-year performance&#8221; of Danville school superintendent Ed Newsome. I&#8217;m not sure how he thinks that the Register &amp; Bee&#8217;s editorial board is anything that could be considered official. It was their opinion and they listed facts.<\/li>\n<li>Next, Bennett takes that Race Pimp Time Machine back to the 1960&#8217;s when horrible things happened in Danville with regards to race relations. There&#8217;s only one problem with that. It&#8217;s 2014. Stupid people did bad things then and those stupid people are mostly dead by now. I didn&#8217;t have a damned thing to do with these acts and I completely disavow them. Tommy Bennett is an up and coming\u00a0 Junior Race Pimp but he already knows the tricks. Paint Today&#8217;s White People with acts of racial disasters from almost 50 years ago even though that has absolutely no relevance to today&#8217;s society.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Race card&#8221; is now a racial term on Tommy Bennett&#8217;s world. My brain is hurting more now.<\/li>\n<li>He goes on to ask &#8220;why it is wrong for citizens, of any color, to attend a public meeting?&#8221; Well, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with it. Nobody has ever said there&#8217;s anything wrong with it, you idiot! Quit trying to make something out of absolutely nothing! GAH!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Much of the criticism of Dr. Newsome is akin to criticism of President Obama during his first few months in office.&#8221; &#8211; WHAT? Where in the hell is he getting this from? I&#8217;ve had a problem with Newsome trying to add layers of bureaucracy to the school system. That fact (Yes, I said fact. I deal in facts.) has nothing to do with his skin color.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Perhaps, I shouldn\u2019t expect more from a town that still prides itself on being the last capital of such a defeated legacy.&#8221; &#8211; Then what the hell are you doing coming back to Danville over and over again after your business ventures in Chicago and other places?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice that Bennett never addresses the actual issues about Ed Newsome. He just tries to make it Back vs. White. This is the stupidest and most infuriating letter that I&#8217;ve read in a long time. Tommy Bennett makes a strong move up the Southside Race Pimp Ladder-O-Shame with this idiocy. Danville&#8217;s black population should be just as ashamed of this letter as the white population.<\/p>\n<p>Danville still has racists in our midst. They&#8217;re both white and black. I&#8217;ll be glad when all of them are gone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would say this letter to the editor is &#8220;beyond the pale&#8221;, but that would probably be called racist too.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danville","category-opinioncentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2lt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6500,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/03\/danville-school-board-race-update-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":9019,"position":0},"title":"Danville School Board Race &#8211; Update #1","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Three open seats, three candidates. 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