{"id":10830,"date":"2013-07-23T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=10830"},"modified":"2013-07-23T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T15:21:08","slug":"the-actual-obsessed-with-racism-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=10830","title":{"rendered":"THE ACTUAL &#8220;OBSESSED WITH RACISM&#8221; QUOTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/harikondabolu.tumblr.com\/post\/56155418838\/the-actual-obsessed-with-racism-quote\">harikondabolu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tumblr has been crediting me with saying <span>&#8220;Telling [people of color] they\u2019re obsessed with racism is like telling a drowning person they\u2019re obsessed with swimming.\u201d \u2014Hari Kondabolu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is a <strong>paraphrase<\/strong> of something I\u2019ve been saying on stage and <strong>not the actual line<\/strong>. Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve really been saying:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Telling me that I\u2019m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I\u2019m obsessed with swimming when I\u2019m drowning.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>harikondabolu: Tumblr has been crediting me with saying &#8220;Telling [people of color] they\u2019re obsessed with racism is like telling a drowning person they\u2019re obsessed with swimming.\u201d \u2014Hari Kondabolu This is a paraphrase of something I\u2019ve been saying on stage and not the actual line. Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve really been saying: &#8220;Telling me that I\u2019m obsessed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=10830\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE ACTUAL &#8220;OBSESSED WITH RACISM&#8221; QUOTE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}