{"id":128,"date":"2006-04-29T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2022-10-22T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T12:28:28","slug":"this-isnt-outrageous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/this-isnt-outrageous\/","title":{"rendered":"This Isn&#8217;t Outrageous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(originally published July 2nd, 2005)<\/p>\n<p>I know things aren't going well between Mexico and black people in America today, but how can even the President of the country not think this is outrageous:<\/p>\n<p> <img WIDTH=\"450\" ALT=\"Home\" SRC=\"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/memin_pinguin_stamps.jpg\" HEIGHT=\"200\" BORDER=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don't know, these are the newest stamps being put out by the Mexican government of one of their favorite cartoon characters, named Memin Pinguin; I have no idea what it means. The president of Mexico came out today saying it wasn't racist, and that if Americans took the time to research the character they'd understand. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some black Mexicans (can't we all get along?), who were interviewed, said it's the type of discrimination they face in their own country almost on a daily basis. Sometimes, they're stopped by the police and made to sing the national anthem, just to prove that they're Mexican.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, isn't this just the Mexican version of Little Black Sambo? Reminds me of the caricature of Darkie Toothpaste that was selling in Japan for a while until they began to understand black outrage. I mean, please, am I missing something here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(originally published July 2nd, 2005) I know things aren&#8217;t going well between Mexico and black people in America today, but how can even the President of the country not think this is outrageous: For those of you who don&#8217;t know, these are the newest stamps being put out by the Mexican government of one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7194,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}