{"id":186434,"date":"2014-01-21T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/21\/from-i-have-a-dream-to-i-have-a-drone\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T01:40:00","slug":"from-i-have-a-dream-to-i-have-a-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/21\/from-i-have-a-dream-to-i-have-a-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"From I Have a Dream to I Have a Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking that on the observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday I should offer some sort of comment, and I’ve kind of been at a loss.<\/p>\n

Driving to work today, I had a flash of insight.<\/p>\n

It’s not deep, but it is glib, and I think that it is an evocative way to give the lie to the idea that somehow or other Obama is a successor to Kings legacy.<\/p>\n

Beneficiary, yes, successor, no f%$#ing way.<\/p>\n

More generally,  I object to the the Disneyification of King’s memory.<\/p>\n

At the core of his activism was a profound and deep moral outrage, and the process by which he has been reduced to some sort of “Magic Negro<\/a>” by the mainstream media is a real shame.<\/p>\n

It serves to dilute much of his message, which was not just about civil rights, but addressed poverty and labor rights as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking that on the observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday I should offer some sort of comment, and I’ve kind of been at a loss. Driving to work today, I had a flash of insight. It’s not deep, but it is glib, and I think that it is an evocative way to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186434"}],"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=186434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}