{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The Scotsman asked what was up with \u201cAfrican-American\u201d as distinct from incidentally African \u201cAmerican\u201d and I was like, \u201cAh, you...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/178690724813/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/92622188878/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>The Scotsman asked what was up with \u201cAfrican-American\u201d as distinct from incidentally African \u201cAmerican\u201d and I was like, \u201cAh, you want to understand race in America? First, you must learn everything.\u201d</p>\n<p>There are three classic topics in American history and they go</p>\n<p>1. Race, huh?</p>\n<p>2. Why no socialism?</p>\n<p>3. The frontier, huh?</p>\n<p>and basically the answer to any of those is the other two</p>\n</blockquote><p>(<a href=\"/post/92622353533/\" target=\"_blank\">cont</a>)</p>"}