{"id":72682,"date":"2015-08-14T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T22:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72682"},"modified":"2023-09-10T07:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:07:55","slug":"lat-50-years-after-watts-there-is-still-a-crisis-in-the-black-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72682","title":{"rendered":"LAT: 50 YEARS AFTER WATTS: &#8216;THERE IS STILL A CRISIS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/wattsriots\/la-me-watts-african-americans-20150813-story.html#page=1\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Farajii Muhammad, 36, an activist and radio host in Baltimore, also draws connections between this moment of #BlackLivesMatter protest and the time when people shouted \u201cBurn, baby, burn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he acknowledges, black people have made tremendous strides, rising into professions and positions of leadership. But he adds that any visitor to Baltimore today \u201cwould see Watts . . . because of the same economic conditions, the same employment conditions, the lack of educational opportunities and just the overall culture of violence and hopelessness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times: Farajii Muhammad, 36, an activist and radio host in Baltimore, also draws connections between this moment of #BlackLivesMatter protest and the time when people shouted \u201cBurn, baby, burn.\u201d Yes, he acknowledges, black people have made tremendous strides, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72682\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72682","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=72682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151601,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72682\/revisions\/151601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}