{"id":2283,"date":"2024-11-12T19:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/gop-lawmaker-deletes-racist-social-media-post-after-swift-backlash\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:20:41","slug":"gop-lawmaker-deletes-racist-social-media-post-after-swift-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmaker-deletes-racist-social-media-post-after-swift-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawmaker deletes racist social media post after swift backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Clay Higgins deleted a social media post Wednesday with racist tropes about Haitians after swift backlash from his congressional colleagues,&nbsp;including a call to censure him on the House floor. Higgins (R-La.) wrote a post on the platform X &mdash; using his official congressional account &mdash; that called Haitians &#8220;wild&#8221; and added: &#8220;Eating pets&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/09\/25\/congress\/fallout-after-racist-republican-social-media-post-00181072\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Clay Higgins deleted a social media post Wednesday with racist tropes about Haitians after swift backlash from his congressional colleagues,&nbsp;including a call to censure him on the House floor. Higgins (R-La.) wrote a post on the platform X &mdash; using his official congressional account &mdash; that called Haitians &#8220;wild&#8221; and added: &#8220;Eating pets&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}