{"id":6330,"date":"2011-05-05T13:18:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2011-05-05T13:08:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:08:49","slug":"oklahoma-house-reprimands-legislator-for-race-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6330","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma House Reprimands Legislator For Race Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY&#8211; The Oklahoma House has voted to reprimand a lawmaker who denigrated Blacks and women during a debate on an Affirmative Action bill.<\/p>\n<p>State <strong>Rep. Sally Kern<\/strong> delivered a tearful apology on the House floor Monday, and then voted for her own reprimand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kern<\/strong> gained national notoriety in 2008 with an anti-homosexual rant.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Oklahoma City Republican questioned whether there were disproportionately high numbers of Blacks in state prisons because &#8220;they didn&#8217;t want to work hard in school.&#8221; She also said women don&#8217;t work as hard as men because they &#8220;tend to think a little bit more about their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president of the Oklahoma chapter for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party have called for <strong>Kern&#8217;s<\/strong> resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY&#8211; The Oklahoma House has voted to reprimand a lawmaker who denigrated Blacks and women during a debate on an Affirmative Action bill. State Rep. Sally Kern delivered a tearful apology on the House floor Monday, and then voted for her own reprimand. Kern gained national notoriety in 2008 with an anti-homosexual rant. Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}