{"id":6811,"date":"2006-08-21T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2006-08-21T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T06:45:00","slug":"authenticity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=6811","title":{"rendered":"Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons to host campaign fundraiser Thursday for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele&#8217;s run for U.S. Senate.&nbsp;  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20060820-111547-3371r.htm\" title=\"Washington Times\">Washington Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Also scheduled to participate in the event are Cathy Hughes, founder and chairman of Radio One, a black-run broadcasting company specializing in urban markets, and hip-hop pioneer DJ Kid Capri.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n[&#8230;]\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMs. Hughes and Mr. Simmons, the man behind the Def Jam Recordings music label and the platinum-plated careers of acts including the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J and Run-DMC, embody Mr. Steele&#8217;s message of economic opportunity, campaign spokesman Doug Heye said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    &#8220;These are both people who not only built extremely successful companies but companies that are actively involved in their communities,&#8221; Mr. Heye said. &#8220;It goes to what Mr. Steele talks about in building legacy wealth.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    Mr. Simmons, who often has used his music empire to advance liberal political activism, has backed the Republican administration in Maryland. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWow.&nbsp; It&#8217;s almost like a reverse <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0066550\/\"><i>Watermelon Man<\/i><\/a>!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf there&#8217;s any social justice,  Jane Hamsher and Steve Gilliard are already hard at work on a series of Photoshops that will help put this latest example of plantation escape into its properly outrageous context.&nbsp; Because let&#8217;s face it:&nbsp; if anybody is more <i>street <\/i>than Russell Simmons, it&#8217;s Connecticut Jane Hamsher and her Evian-quaffing poodles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo go get em&#8217;, Jane!&nbsp;   Because somebody needs to remind these Uncle Toms that it&#8217;s hard out here for a pimp&#8212;and I always enjoy it when that somebody is a wealthy gadfly who just so happens to be whiter than a freshly scrubbed urinal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(h\/t Major John)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons to host campaign fundraiser Thursday for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele&#8217;s run for U.S. Senate.&nbsp; From the Washington Times: Also scheduled to participate in the event are Cathy Hughes, founder and chairman of Radio One, a black-run broadcasting company specializing in urban markets, and hip-hop pioneer DJ Kid Capri. [&#8230;] Ms. Hughes and Mr. Simmons, the man behind the Def Jam Recordings music label and<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=6811\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}