{"id":256730,"date":"2016-07-19T02:05:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T02:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-congressman-white-people-have-contributed-more-to-civilization-than-others-guess-the-reaction\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T02:05:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T02:05:38","slug":"us-congressman-white-people-have-contributed-more-to-civilization-than-others-guess-the-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-congressman-white-people-have-contributed-more-to-civilization-than-others-guess-the-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congressman &quot;White People Have Contributed More to Civilization than Others,&quot; Guess the\u00a0Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Hey look, it&#8217;s a White supremacists:<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/med0tr9q5Fs\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story from\u00a0Vanityfair.com:<\/p>\n<p>During a panel discussion on MSNBC on Monday evening, Rep. Steve King of Iowa said that white people contributed more to civilization than any other categories or \u201csub-group of people,\u201d causing a live segment to devolve into on-air chaos.<\/p>\n<p>As the show broadcast from Cleveland, where much of the conservative establishment has gathered for the Republican National Convention, King responded to comments made by <em>Esquire<\/em> writer Charles Pierce as the panel discussed Monday\u2019s upheaval on the convention floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re really optimistic, you can say that this is the last time that old white people will command the Republican Party\u2019s attention, its platform, and its public face,\u201d Pierce said. \u201cOf course, I thought this was going to happen after 2012, but thanks for the good work of Congressman King, I was disappointed . . . But I\u2019ll tell you what, in that hall today, that hall is wired. It\u2019s wired by unhappy, dissatisfied white people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole \u2018white people\u2019 business does get a little tired, Charlie,\u201d King said. \u201cI\u2019d ask you to go back through history and figure out, where have these contributions been made by these other categories of people that you\u2019re talking about. Where did any other sub-group of people contribute more to civilization?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThan white people?\u201d host Chris Hayes asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThan\u2014than western civilization itself, that\u2019s rooted in western&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/us-congressman-white-people-have-contributed-more-to-civilization-than-others-guess-the-reaction\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey look, it&#8217;s a White supremacists: Here&#8217;s the story from\u00a0Vanityfair.com: During a panel discussion on MSNBC on Monday evening, Rep. Steve King of Iowa said that white people contributed more to civilization than any other categories or \u201csub-group of people,\u201d causing a live segment to devolve into on-air chaos. As the show broadcast from Cleveland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}