{"id":3819,"date":"2007-11-03T23:30:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T06:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/03\/today-is-the-anniversary-of-the-greensboro-massacre\/"},"modified":"2007-11-03T23:30:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T06:50:29","slug":"today-is-the-anniversary-of-the-greensboro-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3819","title":{"rendered":"Today is the Anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this by <a href=\"http:\/\/whyaminotsurprised.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/there-has-been-much-in-media-of-late.html\">Why Am I Not Surprised?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On this date in 1979, a group made up of both African-Americans and European-Americans gathered in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest against the Ku Klux Klan. As soon as they began, however, forty KKK members and American Nazis drove into the crowd, got out of their vehicles, got out their automatic weapons and opened fire, killing five and wounding ten others. The massacre was filmed by four television stations. Nevertheless, after two trials, two all-White juries acquited all defendents and no one has ever served a day in jail for these cold-blooded killings in broad daylight while law enforcement officers looked on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this by Why Am I Not Surprised? On this date in 1979, a group made up of both African-Americans and European-Americans gathered in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest against the Ku Klux Klan. As soon as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3819\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","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=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}