{"id":6601,"date":"2013-07-03T07:23:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2013-07-03T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:24:00","slug":"blacks-are-being-pushed-to-the-back-of-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6601","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Blacks are being pushed to the back of the bus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_6602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6602\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cornelwest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6602\" alt=\"Cornel West\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cornelwest.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cornelwest.jpg 271w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cornelwest-190x130.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 85vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cornel West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s been a great week for gay activists, but Dr. Cornel West is not happy.\u00a0As the postmodern professor <em>par excellence<\/em> explained to radio host Tavis Smiley last Sunday, the advances made by gays and lesbians mean that \u201cwe black folk are just being pushed to the back of the bus\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Again this has something to do of course with what history books will say. The irony of the age of Obama in which black folks found themselves pushed to the back, [and] our gay\u00a0brothers and lesbian sisters more and more pushed to the center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps West is right, and identity politics really is a zero-sum game.\u00a0Then again, the good doctor may simply be suffering from a touch of radical conditionedness. &#8211; National Review<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a great week for gay activists, but Dr. Cornel West is not happy.\u00a0As the postmodern professor par excellence explained to radio host Tavis Smiley last Sunday, the advances made by gays and lesbians mean that \u201cwe black folk are just being pushed to the back of the bus\u201d: Again this has something to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Blacks are being pushed to the back of the bus&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[3664,3663,73],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-black-advances","tag-cornel-west","tag-gay-marriage"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cornelwest.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6605,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions\/6605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}