{"id":111,"date":"2006-02-28T07:08:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=111"},"modified":"2006-02-28T07:19:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T15:19:03","slug":"is-it-racist-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/is-it-racist-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Racist Then?"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2006\/02\/28\/060228143029.k88009gg.html\">US opposition to UAE port firm takeover seen as racist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><dd>&#8220;There is a racist dimension in this matter, and that is because the firm linked to the deal is Arab, which, in the opinion of some people, should not manage US ports,&#8221; Emirati political analyst Abdul Khaleq Abdullah told AFP.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Here I thought it had to do with it being a <i>foreign<\/i> Arab firm &#8212; a firm which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1139395502196&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">entirely owned by the government of Dubai<\/a>. And participates in an Arab boycott against Israel. Sure, Dubai is an &#8220;ally&#8221; &#8212; so much so it has a strong anti-US vote record in the UN.<\/p>\n<p>But playing the race card is so much simpler.<\/p>\n<p>In which case, an <b>urgent memo to Mexican President Fox:<\/b> Sir, use one of your government-owned firms to take over management of several key US border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>And keep a corner of the race card just poking out of your suit jacket pocket.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/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>US opposition to UAE port firm takeover seen as racist: &#8220;There is a racist dimension in this matter, and that is because the firm linked to the deal is Arab, which, in the opinion of some people, should not manage US ports,&#8221; Emirati political analyst Abdul Khaleq Abdullah told AFP. Oh. Here I thought it &#8230; <a title=\"Is It Racist Then?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/is-it-racist-then\/\" aria-label=\"More on Is It Racist Then?\">Read more<\/a><!-- 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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-1N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}