{"id":15726,"date":"2015-07-29T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15726"},"modified":"2015-07-29T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T18:02:59","slug":"how-republicans-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/how-republicans-party\/","title":{"rendered":"How Republicans Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you are prone to anger, you might want to skip ahead, because I find if difficult to contain the outrage I feel over the vile acts of some Georgia Republicans.&#160; They dressed in full Republican regalia, put the Republican flag, the stars and bars, on display and attacked a child\u2019s birthday party.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0729GOPParty\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0729GOPParty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0729GOPParty.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"221\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I kid you not, it feels like we are going back in time in America. <\/p>\n<p>In an Atlanta suburb this past weekend, Melissa Alford (a black woman) and her family were hosting an outdoor birthday party in Douglasville, Georgia, when a convoy of seven large pickup trucks donning Confederate flags interrupted the party and pulled into the grass. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/news\/local\/watch-heated-confrontation-over-confederate-flags-\/nm7JH\/\" target=\"_blank\">The occupants then called them niggers and threatened them with violence<\/a>, according to multiple eyewitnesses, who also stated that the men actually flashed guns at them:<\/p>\n<p>One of at least two cellphone videos from the incident shows Douglasville police officers holding back a group of black men and women as at least seven pickup trucks drive off. The trucks\u2019 white passengers wave as the Confederate, American and military flags mounted on the vehicles flap in the air. . <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a child\u2019s birthday party,\u201d one woman in the crowd can be heard saying.<\/p>\n<p>A second video shows the trucks gathered on a grassy area, and the N-word can be heard. A woman who shared the video said the trucks were on her property and their passengers were armed and threatened to \u201ckill y\u2019all [N-words].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/07\/27\/1406207\/-Armed-Confederate-supporters-interrupt-Black-child-s-birthday-party-w-racial-slurs-death-threats\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pQ1lbt1CdPI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I just can\u2019t get my head around such vile, unbridled, Republican hate.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are prone to anger, you might want to skip ahead, because I find if difficult to contain the outrage I feel over the vile acts of some Georgia Republicans.&#160; They dressed in full Republican regalia, put the Republican flag, the stars and bars, on display and attacked a child\u2019s birthday party. I kid <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/how-republicans-party\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}