{"id":2083,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/point-race-no-longer-divides-us-counterpoint-i-agree-with-the-jew\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:59:32","slug":"point-race-no-longer-divides-us-counterpoint-i-agree-with-the-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/point-race-no-longer-divides-us-counterpoint-i-agree-with-the-jew\/","title":{"rendered":"Point: Race No Longer Divides Us. Counterpoint: I Agree with the Jew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Teddy Zamborsky\">Teddy Zamborsky<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Feb. 1, 2015<\/h6>\n<p>Point: Race No Longer Divides Us<\/p>\n<p> I, Paul Steinburg, am able to proclaim, in the year 2424, that race no longer divides us. I am happy to say that there are no longer distinctly black or white ways of life, or jokes, any other form of social interaction. We live in a world where people of all races listen to rap music or go apple-picking on a warm fall afternoon. The world is now truly small, and all people, whether they be white, off-white, beige, eggshell, linen, ivory, cinnamon, blue, magenta, or black now share one culture between them. <\/p>\n<p>I imagine it all started with the election of the first UN Grand Overlord, His Almightiness Jos\u00e9 Li Kennedy VII, who is composed equally of all races. I know there may be some holdouts who live away from society, and spend all day slowly strumming their banjos\u2013 but the world as a whole has finally moved past the ridiculous idea of judging someone or acting differently towards them because of something as trivial as skin color.  <\/p>\n<p>Counterpoint: I Agree with the Jew<\/p>\n<p> I have to say: going into this, I didn\u2019t think I was going to agree with the bagel dog. We aren\u2019t very similar. I am a proud Southerner and he is a Bronx Indian, I read the full Bible and he reads a shortened version, I\u2019m going to heaven and he is going to hell, etc.<\/p>\n<p> But this guy is no shyster. He\u2019s not trying to sell you anything, which I know might be hard to believe. Despite our different origins, we do share interests, like apple-picking, rap, and investment banking. And what races could be more different than white and Israeli?<\/p>\n<p> I think it is particularly important that we take notice of just how right this Jew is in the midst of Black History Month. At this point, the holiday is outdated: we don&#8217;t need to celebrate one specific race now that we&#8217;ve all come a consensus that race is so yesterday. Instead, we should on  celebrating our shared, Judeo-Christian, vaguely tan heritage.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Teddy Zamborsky Feb. 1, 2015 Point: Race No Longer Divides Us I, Paul Steinburg, am able to proclaim, in the year 2424, that race no longer divides us. I am happy to say that there are no longer distinctly black or white ways of life, or jokes, any other form of social interaction. We live in a world where people of all races listen to rap music or go apple-picking on a warm fall afternoon. The world is now truly small, and all people, whether they be white, off-white, beige, eggshell, linen, ivory, cinnamon, blue, magenta, or black now share one culture between them. I imagine it all started with the election of the first UN Grand Overlord, His Almightiness Jos\u00e9 Li Kennedy VII, who is composed equally of all races. I know there may be some holdouts who live away from society, and spend all day slowly strumming their banjos\u2013 but the world as a whole has finally moved past the ridiculous idea of judging someone or acting differently towards them because of something as trivial as skin color. Counterpoint: I Agree with the Jew I have to say: going into this, I didn\u2019t think I was going to agree with the bagel dog. We aren\u2019t very similar. I am a proud Southerner and he is a Bronx Indian, I read the full Bible and he reads a shortened version, I\u2019m going to heaven and he is going to hell, etc. But this guy is no shyster. He\u2019s not trying to sell you anything, which I know might be hard to believe. Despite our different origins, we do share interests, like apple-picking, rap, and investment banking. And what races could be more different than white and Israeli? I think it is particularly important that we take notice of just how right this Jew is in the midst of Black History Month. At this point, the holiday is outdated: we don&#8217;t need to celebrate one specific race now that we&#8217;ve all come a consensus that race is so yesterday. Instead, we should on celebrating our shared, Judeo-Christian, vaguely tan heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}