{"id":227,"date":"2022-07-05T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2022-09-28T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:58:35","slug":"highland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Highland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Let America be America again \u2013 Langston Hughes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What to the Slave is the 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July \u2013 Fredrick Douglas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">How can someone be anti-abortion and pro death penalty? Can you be pro-life and pro 2<sup>nd<\/sup> amendment and say with the same voice that it should be against the law for a woman\u2019s right to choose but not do anything in their power to enact laws that can stop mass murder with weapons of war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Why are white terrorist and murderers \u201carrested without incident\u201d on the same weekend that another Black man was murdered by police during a traffic stop? Hypocrisy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">What is the formula for shooting and killing innocent people (Highland Park) and living when stopped by police?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Highland Park, a place where I spent 10 years working exactly one block from the horror on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July. A corner I\u2019ve stood on a thousand times, at JB Winberie\u2019s which is now Walker Bros. Where me and my coworkers had our names engraved on a plaque for successfully drinking a variety of beers\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I, like the rest of America and the world are saddened by the events of July 4<sup>th<\/sup>. In a place I know, it hits different when there is familiarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let America be America again \u2013 Langston Hughes What to the Slave is the 4th of July \u2013 Fredrick Douglas How can someone be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-and-raves","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}