{"id":88650,"date":"2020-01-16T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88650"},"modified":"2020-01-15T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T23:32:11","slug":"local-paper-senator-posts-racist-email-from-a-constituent-to-show-bigotry-is-alive-and-well-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88650","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Senator posts racist email from a constituent to show bigotry is \u2018alive and well\u2019 in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A routine campaign email turned into a teaching moment on race for a South Carolina senator.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia Democrat Mia McLeod posted on social media a screenshot of a constituent\u2019s email that referred to her by using a racial epithet and expletive. The constituent was responding to her \u201csave the date\u201d invitation to a Jan. 28 fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a bit taken aback, but not totally shocked,\u201d McLeod, who is black, told The Post and Courier on Wednesday&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/politics\/senator-posts-racist-email-from-a-constituent-to-show-bigotry\/article_d0614ba4-37d8-11ea-b6a5-a397b45fb301.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A routine campaign email turned into a teaching moment on race for a South Carolina senator.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GAVz71amz8\">https:\/\/t.co\/GAVz71amz8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1217576513224216578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A routine campaign email turned into a teaching moment on race for a South Carolina senator. Columbia Democrat Mia McLeod posted on social media a screenshot of a constituent\u2019s email that referred to her by using a racial epithet and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88650\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,120,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-racerace-relations","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88653,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88650\/revisions\/88653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}