{"id":18985,"date":"2014-08-20T11:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18985"},"modified":"2014-08-20T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:24:03","slug":"must-read-jamelle-bouie-article-on-the-decades-old-context-for-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18985","title":{"rendered":"Must-Read Jamelle Bouie Article On The Decades-Old Context For Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ferguson-police-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ferguson-police-dog-590x382.jpg\" alt=\"ferguson-police-dog\" width=\"590\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ferguson-police-dog-590x382.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ferguson-police-dog-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ferguson-police-dog-940x608.jpg 940w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ferguson-police-dog.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2014\/08\/ferguson_protests_over_michael_brown_won_t_end_soon_the_black_community.single.html\">Ferguson protests over Michael Brown won\u2019t end soon: The black community\u2019s anger is rooted in a history of racism.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This longish (well, longer than a blog post) article by Jamelle Bouie, about the long history of official racism in Ferguson, does the most to supply context for the protests (and even the looting) in Ferguson of any article I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat related: <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-many-americans-the-police-kill-each-year\/\">Nobody Knows How Many Americans The Police Kill Each Year | FiveThirtyEight<\/a>. The fact that we don&#8217;t even have an effective system to track deaths caused by police is appalling.<\/p>\n<p>Both links via <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2014\/08\/the-best-ferguson-overview-ive-seen.html\">Obsidian Wings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferguson protests over Michael Brown won\u2019t end soon: The black community\u2019s anger is rooted in a history of racism. This longish (well, longer than a blog post) article by Jamelle Bouie, about the long history of official racism in Ferguson, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,149,64,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-police-brutality","category-prisons-and-justice","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18987,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985\/revisions\/18987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}