{"id":2260,"date":"2017-01-28T16:45:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T16:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2017-01-28T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T16:45:13","slug":"this-is-how-racism-hits-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/01\/this-is-how-racism-hits-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how racism hits hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m just reading Herbie Hancock\u2019s autobiography. It\u2019s about music and life choices and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Herbie like me, like <a href=\"https:\/\/harold.itch.io\/black-in-men\" target=\"_blank\">black in men<\/a> is an ambassador of loving one another. He had the luck to avoid most of the rough and hard racism most of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, he speaks about Emmett Till who was his age and coming from the same neighborhood in Chicago. He was shook when it happened, enough that he writes a few pages about it in his biography. Who wouldn\u2019t be traumatized after seeing those pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we just learned yesterday that the white woman confirmed that she lied about Emmett Till doing anything to her. He did not. He got lynched for no reason.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s shit like this, people. It\u2019s shit like this. Black people don\u2019t look after racism or proof of racism. We\u2019d rather have none of that. We\u2019d rather have no proof, no statements, no pictures, no trauma, no trust issues, no tears, no pain.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d rather just live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m just reading Herbie Hancock\u2019s autobiography. It\u2019s about music and life choices and creativity. Herbie like me, like black in men is an ambassador of loving one another. He had the luck to avoid most of the rough and hard racism most of his life. Nevertheless, he speaks about Emmett Till who was his age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}