{"id":431,"date":"2016-12-18T17:53:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/?p=431"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:53:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:53:42","slug":"thank-you-jeremy-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/thank-you-jeremy-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Jeremy Mitchell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/337px-Fist.svg_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-437 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/337px-Fist.svg_-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"337px-fist-svg\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/337px-Fist.svg_-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/337px-Fist.svg_.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>When I put my mind to it (and am suitably motivated), I can often put thoughts and feelings into a coherently written blog post. Sometimes, however, there&#8217;s not much to say when someone else has done it as eloquently as Jeremy Mitchell has in this quote that I saw on Twitter. (Thank you, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Freeyourmindkid\" target=\"_blank\">Black Aziz Ansari<\/a><\/strong>.) Rather than re-post a picture, I&#8217;ve posted in text form for easier search results. Here you go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I listened as they called my President a Muslim (as if it were a bad thing). I listened as they called him a monkey. I listened as they said he wasn&#8217;t born here. I watched as they blocked every single path to progress that they could. I saw the pictures of him as Hitler. I listened as they openly said that they will oppose him at every turn. I watched as they did just that. I listened and I watched and I paid attention. Now, I&#8217;m being called on to be tolerant. To move forward. To denounce protesters. To &#8220;Get over it.&#8221; To accept this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I will not. I will do my part to make sure this great American mistake becomes the embarrassing footnote of our history that it deserves to be, as quickly as possible. I will do my part to limit the damage that this man can do to my country. I will vote. I will watch his every move and point out every single mistake and misdeed in a loud and proud voice. Do not call for my tolerance. I&#8217;ve tolerated all I can. Now it&#8217;s their turn to tolerate ridicule. Be aware, make no mistake about it, every single thing that goes wrong in our country from this day forward is now Trump&#8217;s fault just as much as they thought it was Obama&#8217;s. I find it unreasonable for them to expect from me what they were entirely unwilling to give. They will find no shelter here.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Jeremy Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Jeremy. I don&#8217;t know who you are, where you live, or even if these are really your words. But I do hope to , one day, know more about my fellow &#8220;kindred spirit&#8221; in the fight against Trumpmerica.<br \/>\n(If anyone knows Jeremy, drop me a line or comment on the post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I put my mind to it (and am suitably motivated), I can often put thoughts and feelings into a coherently written blog post. Sometimes, however, there&#8217;s not much to say when someone else has done it as eloquently as Jeremy Mitchell has in this quote that I saw on Twitter. (Thank you, Black Aziz &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/thank-you-jeremy-mitchell\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-431","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-general-stuff","9":"category-national-politics","10":"category-political-stuff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}