{"id":1167,"date":"2021-01-07T22:50:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T22:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2021-01-29T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:53:33","slug":"white-mobs-and-snow-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"White Mobs and Snow Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>It\u2019s not that I wanted yesterday to happen, but sometimes people have to see something for themselves \u2014 you can\u2019t tell them, regardless of what facts, science, etc. may support. But if they see it with their own eyes? Perhaps. Actions speak louder than words. For those who missed the obvious yesterday \u2014 there are still honorable journalists speaking and writing about it. White supremacy and cock-eyed \u201cAmerican\u201d justice was there for all the world to see. Unless, of course, you continue to suffer from snow blindness. For those who don\u2019t but perhaps do continue to believe in an America offering liberty and justice for all \u2014 there are a couple of excellent, easy, engaging and engrossing stories about the hidden (and not so very hidden) truths of the foundations of our beloved (still, perhaps?), yet flawed country. If you haven\u2019t yet, please consider reading <strong>Lies My Teacher Told Me<\/strong> by James W. Loewen and <br \/><strong>A People\u2019s History of the United States<\/strong> by Howard Zinn.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not that I wanted yesterday to happen, but sometimes people have to see something for themselves \u2014 you can\u2019t tell them, regardless of what facts, science, etc. may support. But if they see it with their own eyes? Perhaps. Actions speak louder than words. For those who missed the obvious yesterday \u2014 there are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;White Mobs and Snow Blindness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}