{"id":5971,"date":"2012-02-12T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T22:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2012-02-12T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T22:27:26","slug":"council-member-ed-hansen-of-west-saint-paul-just-might-be-a-racist-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/12\/council-member-ed-hansen-of-west-saint-paul-just-might-be-a-racist-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Member Ed Hansen of West Saint Paul just might be a Racist Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West Saint Paul Council Member Ed Hansen's porch, sporting a Confederate Flag with the word "Redneck" on it. Ed says this is not a symbol of racism and that anyone who does not get that is ignorant. Everybody else on the planet thinks Ed is a fool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Everyone knows that the “confederate flag” when flow outside of Dixie is always a racist symbol. (When flown IN Dixie, it is usually a racist symbol.) Everyone knows that “redneck” is a term often applied to intolerant ignorant yahoos who are typically racist. Therefore a confederate flag with the word “redneck” written across it can’t be interpreted as anything but a racist, and\/or white supremacy symbol. <\/p>\n

Ed Hansen was elected to the West Saint Paul city council in 2010. A short while back he hung the flag on his porch. A neighbor notes that a prospective buyer of an adjoining property shied away from the buy because of this flag, but Hansen insists that everyone is making a big deal out of nothing. <\/p>\n

“I’m not a racist, and I don’t think it’s racist. People like to play the race card, though, when they don’t get their way.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regarding the prospective home buyer who did not want to live next to a racist yahoo, Hansen said:<\/p>\n

Good. I don’t want him for a neighbor then. If people choose to be ignorant, that’s their own fault. They should study history. It represents true sovereignty.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story is reported here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Ed Hansen’s email is ehansen@cityofwsp.org in case you want to drop him a line. <\/p>\n

Does anybody know, is this the same Ed Hansen who owns Rocco’s Pizza in Little Canada? <\/p>\n

For those not familiar with the local geography: “West Saint Paul” is not part of Saint Paul, nor is it west of Saint Paul. It is a town in another county that is called West Saint Paul because it is on the “West Side” of the Mississippi River from Saint Paul, but because of the squiggly nature of the river here, that means it is south and, in fact, east of much of Saint Paul. Little Canada is not near Canada, but it is little. And, even though there is a “Pizza” place called “Rocco’s” there are no actual Italians in Minnesota. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone knows that the “confederate flag” when flow outside of Dixie is always a racist symbol. (When flown IN Dixie, it is usually a racist symbol.) Everyone knows that “redneck” is a term often applied to intolerant ignorant yahoos who are typically racist. Therefore a confederate flag with the word “redneck” written across it can’t … Continue reading Council Member Ed Hansen of West Saint Paul just might be a Racist Dick<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[303],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1yj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}