{"id":297,"date":"2007-05-17T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T22:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2007-12-09T07:55:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T14:43:52","slug":"double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/page.do\/21566\/An_Embarrassing_Double_Standard.html\">From The Jewish Press&#8217;s editorial<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>       Several black city lawmakers last week accused their white colleagues of attempting to dictate to African Americans whom they can honor as the battle over naming a street for the late &ldquo;activist&rdquo; Sonny Carson hit the floor of the New York City Council.<\/p>\n<p>Council Speaker Christine Quinn has successfully pushed to have Carson&rsquo;s name stricken from a bill that would rename 51 streets in honor of various individuals, citing Carson&rsquo;s statement that he was &ldquo;anti-white.&rdquo; (He also served time for kidnapping and assorted other crimes.)<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron, for one, took great umbrage: &ldquo;How does it look to this city&hellip;that the three white male members of the City Council&hellip;tell an entire black community no, and then say its not racial?&rdquo; he asked.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Jewish Press&#8217;s editorial: Several black city lawmakers last week accused their white colleagues of attempting to dictate to African Americans whom they can honor as the battle over naming a street for the late &ldquo;activist&rdquo; Sonny Carson hit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=297\">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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}