{"id":12370,"date":"2009-10-28T19:58:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T03:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12370"},"modified":"2009-10-28T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T04:01:08","slug":"african-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12370","title":{"rendered":"African-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Dennis Prager&#8217;s radio show Oct. 22, Larry Elder said: &quot;I never use the term African-American. It&#8217;s a term that is divisive. I&#8217;m an American. I was born and raised in Los Angeles&#8230; Obviously I have ancestors who come from Africa, but you don&#8217;t find Americans of Italian descent being referred to as Italian-American or Americans of Greek descent being referred to as Greek-Americans. This thing is very annoying and condescending, as though I am very insecure and have to attach myself to a continent where I have never been. Most American blacks have never been to Africa.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis: &quot;The only reason I do use the term is because I don&#8217;t want the listener who thinks it is a morally obligatory term to be turned off.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Larry: &quot;If people want to be called that, fine.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dennis Prager&#8217;s radio show Oct. 22, Larry Elder said: &quot;I never use the term African-American. It&#8217;s a term that is divisive. I&#8217;m an American. I was born and raised in Los Angeles&#8230; Obviously I have ancestors who come from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12370\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4,19682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-dennis-prager","category-larry-elder"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12373,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370\/revisions\/12373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}