{"id":88285,"date":"2016-02-22T06:54:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88285"},"modified":"2016-02-22T06:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T14:55:16","slug":"black-power-icon-nina-simone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88285","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Black Power Icon Nina Simone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a promotion for a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ninasimone.com\/2014\/12\/what-happened-miss-simone\/\">Netflix documentary<\/a> on &#8220;black power icon Nina Simone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if white power icons like David Duke would receive similarly respectful treatment?<\/p>\n<p>Why is black power beautiful but white power ugly? Why is black beautiful but white identity repugnant?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fine with black power and I&#8217;m fine with white power. I want every group to see their people as the very center of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a promotion for a Netflix documentary on &#8220;black power icon Nina Simone.&#8221; I wonder if white power icons like David Duke would receive similarly respectful treatment? Why is black power beautiful but white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88285\">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-88285","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\/88285","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=88285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88287,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88285\/revisions\/88287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}