{"id":175964,"date":"2020-10-10T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/10\/clearly-we-are-in-a-post-racial-society\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T01:10:00","slug":"clearly-we-are-in-a-post-racial-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/10\/clearly-we-are-in-a-post-racial-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly, We Are in a Post-Racial Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While walking down the street in Beverly Hills, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2020\/oct\/10\/versace-executive-salehe-bembury-accuses-los-angeles-police-of-racial-profiling\">Black senior Versace executive was stopped and searched by police<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>This is the rule, not an exception. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">A black Versace executive says he was racially profiled close to the Beverly Hills branch of the Italian luxury fashion brand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Salehe Bembury, the vice-president of sneakers and men\u2019s footwear at Versace, was stopped and searched for jaywalking in Rodeo Drive, near Camden Drive and Wilshire Boulevard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u201cWhat\u2019s unfortunate is I literally designed the shoes that are in the bag and I\u2019m f%$#ing being searched for them,\u201d Bembury appears telling police officers in a video of the incident<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>%$# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>First, &#8220;VP of sneakers?&#8221;&nbsp; That&#8217;s just kind of weird.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Second, if you think that there is no more racism in the United States, you are either an egregious racist, or you are brain dead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking down the street in Beverly Hills, a Black senior Versace executive was stopped and searched by police: This is the rule, not an exception. A black Versace executive says he was racially profiled close to the Beverly Hills branch of the Italian luxury fashion brand. Salehe Bembury, the vice-president of sneakers and men\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,498,526,398],"class_list":["post-175964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-fashion","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}