{"id":2464,"date":"2011-01-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/crept-up.html"},"modified":"2011-01-26T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:00:00","slug":"crept-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/crept-up.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;some opposition that has crept up&#8221; &#8211;Brad Lofton"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eZVVMJXDo9U\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/eZVVMJXDo9U\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nOn 6 Jan 2011, Brad Lofton made a joke out of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eZVVMJXDo9U\">\n&#8220;some opposition that has crept up&#8221; that he claims called him an\n&#8220;environmental racist&#8221;.<\/a>\nHe says &#8220;we just provided the facts&#8221;\nand\n&#8220;all of a sudden we haven&#8217;t heard anymore about environmental racism.&#8221;\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZVVMJXDo9U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\nLofton has been misquoting like this\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/industrial-authority-response-to-two-letters-to-the-editor.html\">since September.<\/a>\nBack then he was willing to name the chairman of the local NAACP.\nHe doesn&#8217;t mention that Leigh Touchton\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/leigh-touchton-wonders-what-brad-lofton-is-hiding.html\">\nresponded to him back then:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nI did not call the Industrial Authority an environmental racist. What I\nstated quite clearly was that the siting of the Biomass Incinerator in\na predominantly black neighborhood constitutes environmental racism.\n<\/blockquote>\nIn her response, she went on to rebut Lofton&#8217;s alleged facts.\nHe has never to my knowledge responded to the points Touchton raised in her rebuttal.\nInstead, he goes around making a joke out of the NAACP.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 6 Jan 2011, Brad Lofton made a joke out of &#8220;some opposition that has crept up&#8221; that he claims called him an &#8220;environmental racist&#8221;. He says &#8220;we just provided the facts&#8221; and &#8220;all of a sudden we haven&#8217;t heard anymore about environmental racism.&#8221; Lofton has been misquoting like this since September. Back then he [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,120,2951,178],"tags":[8738,1747,4567,4020,8863,4358,180,8749],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-naacp","category-vlcia","tag-biomass","tag-brad-lofton","tag-environmental-justice","tag-leigh-touchton","tag-naacp","tag-racism","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-DK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}