{"id":11014,"date":"2016-10-16T07:38:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T13:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=11014"},"modified":"2016-10-16T07:38:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T13:38:39","slug":"black-names-for-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=11014","title":{"rendered":"Black names for hurricanes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I keep saying &#8220;I am glad I am old&#8221;<br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s Black hurricanes&#8230;.There&#8217;s no end to stupidity of some United States elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>Just when you think you have heard all of the stupid things that are going on in the US &#8212; this comes along&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears our African-American friends have found yet something else to be pissed about.<\/p>\n<p>A black congresswoman (this would be Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston), reportedly complained that the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian sounding names.<br \/>\nShe would prefer some names that reflect African-American culture such as Chamiqua, Tanisha, Woeisha, Shaquille, and Jamal.<br \/>\nI am NOT making this up!<br \/>\nShe would also like the weather reports to be broadcast in &#8216;language&#8217; that street people can understand because one of the problems that happened in New Orleans was, that black people couldn&#8217;t understand the seriousness of the situation, due to the racially biased language of the weather report.<\/p>\n<p>I guess if the weather person says that the winds are going to blow at 140 MPH, that&#8217;s too hard to understand.<\/p>\n<p>I can hear it now: A weatherman in New Orleans says&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Wazzup, mutha-fukkas! Hehr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin&#8217; fo&#8217; yo ass like Leroy on a rocket!<br \/>\nBitch be a category fo&#8217;!<br \/>\nSo, turn off dem chitlins, grab yo&#8217; chirren, leave yo crib, and head fo&#8217; de nearest FEMA office fo yo FREE shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I keep saying &#8220;I am glad I am old&#8221; Now it&#8217;s Black hurricanes&#8230;.There&#8217;s no end to stupidity of some United States elected officials. Just when you think you have heard all of the stupid things that are going on in the US &#8212; this comes along&#8230; Well, it appears our African-American friends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=11014\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black names for hurricanes.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11015,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions\/11015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}