{"id":34724,"date":"2013-03-29T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34724"},"modified":"2013-03-29T08:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:00:46","slug":"think-progress-gop-congressman-refuses-to-apologize-for-calling-latinos-wetbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/03\/29\/think-progress-gop-congressman-refuses-to-apologize-for-calling-latinos-wetbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Progress: GOP Congressman Refuses To Apologize For Calling Latinos \u2018Wetbacks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Don Young (R-AK) on Thursday night stood by his use of a racial slur to describe Latinos, saying that he \u201cmeant no disrespect\u201d when he told an Alaska radio interviewer, \u201cWe used to hire 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cDuring a sit down interview with Ketchikan Public Radio this week, I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in Central California,\u201d Young said in the statement. \u201cI know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays and I meant no disrespect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the Alaska Daily News notes, Young \u201cstopped short of apologizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/03\/29\/1793271\/don-young-latino-wetbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Don Young (R-AK) on Thursday night stood by his use of a racial slur to describe Latinos, saying that he \u201cmeant no disrespect\u201d when he told an Alaska radio interviewer, \u201cWe used to hire 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes\u201d: \u201cDuring a sit down interview with Ketchikan Public Radio this week, I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}