{"id":16262,"date":"2009-02-28T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2009-02-28T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T13:25:00","slug":"happy-birthday-oscar-grant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16262","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Oscar Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>xMabaitx <a href=\"http:\/\/50megatonpapertiger.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/27\/i-am-darker-than-obama-happy-birthday-oscar-grant\/\" >blogs about<\/a> race, racial identity, skin color, and Oscar Grant:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I have determined that my former desire to \u201dfit into\u201d a certain racial or ethnic distinction has very little bearing on my own sense of personal self-worth.  The greater issue rather is how the white man\u2019s ideas of race and ethnicity consequently force unwanted social meanings upon my body.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/895\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/895\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=743885&#038;%23038;post=895&#038;%23038;subd=blogbullet&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xMabaitx blogs about race, racial identity, skin color, and Oscar Grant: I have determined that my former desire to \u201dfit into\u201d a certain racial or ethnic distinction has very little bearing on my own sense of personal self-worth. The greater issue rather is how the white man\u2019s ideas of race and ethnicity consequently force unwanted [&#8230;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=895&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-brutality","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17617,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262\/revisions\/17617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}