{"id":36091,"date":"2014-03-25T20:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36091"},"modified":"2014-03-26T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T19:22:21","slug":"stephen-colbert-is-confused-about-g-k-butterfields-race-in-latest-better-know-a-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36091","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield&#8217;s Race In Latest &#8216;Better Know A District&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/03\/25\/colbert-g-k-butterfield_n_5029264.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield&#8217;s Race In Latest &#8216;Better Know A District&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2014-03-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/carol-hartsell\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Carol Hartsell<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Comedy Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Colbert\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> unveiled a new edition of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/better-know-a-district\" target=\"_blank\">Better Know A District<\/a>&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/full-episodes\/xd0j8j\/march-24--2014---bryan-cranston\" target=\"_blank\">Monday&#8217;s show<\/a>, and it was chock-full of racial misunderstandings, confusing questions and barbecue taste tests&#8230; like all of his best segments, really.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting down with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina<\/a> Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G._K._Butterfield\" target=\"_blank\">G. K. Butterfield<\/a>, things got off to an awkward start when Colbert was confused by the congressman&#8217;s race (Butterfield is the son of mixed-race parents and identifies as African-American). But once that was over, Colbert got right to the tough questions: why Butterfield is prejudiced against the 1% (the <em>real<\/em> minority in America) and why he wants to make six-year-olds pay more for cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed.html?eid=l7dptq3bws3kgzd5mvb-zg&amp;partner=aol&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hulu.com%2fwatch%2f613124\" height=\"288\" width=\"512\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch the full segment above or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/613124\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield&#8217;s Race In Latest &#8216;Better Know A District&#8217; The Huffington Post 2014-03-25 Carol Hartsell, Senior Comedy Editor Stephen Colbert unveiled a new edition of &#8220;Better Know A District&#8221; on Monday&#8217;s show, and it was chock-full of racial misunderstandings, confusing questions and barbecue taste tests&#8230; like all of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13743,26,20,842],"tags":[17116,17117,10108,879,17130,17129,2425],"class_list":["post-36091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-politics","category-usa","category-videos","tag-carol-hartsell","tag-g-k-butterfield","tag-huffington-post","tag-north-carolina","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-colbert-report","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}