{"id":1795,"date":"2018-10-17T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2018-10-17T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:56:05","slug":"robert-kennedy-the-marginalized-my-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kennedy, the marginalized, my presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the last month… \u00a0I’ve been reading some of the book Robert Kennedy and His Times<\/em><\/strong> by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. \u00a0Last night I was reading a section that included that Kennedy wrote in 1967: \u00a0“…we are two worlds.” \u00a0The world of the white middle class was reasonably pleasant. “But if we try to look through he eyes of the young slum-dweller — the Negro, and the Puerto Rican, and the Mexican-American — the world is a dark and hopeless place.” \u00a0Schlesinger noted that Kennedy could bridge divides and connect deeply with those on the margins. \u00a0“He could see things,” said Cesar Chavez, “through he eyes of the poor… It was like he was ours.” \u00a0This section also chronicled the bloody “ghetto rioting” during this time, and Kennedy fervently trying to come up with answers, not only to quell the violence, but to impact the dead-end poverty that was pushing people to the edge. \u00a0Note: \u00a0We saw this dead-end poverty, first hand, during a five-year stay near the inner city of Cleveland to work with a group of Catholic Workers<\/a>. \u00a0During this time, my empathy for those trapped down there increased exponentially. \u00a0As president, I’d wage war on poverty and social injustice in these cities and this position paper details these strategies, at length…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the last month… \u00a0I’ve been reading some of the book Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. \u00a0Last night I was reading a section that included that Kennedy wrote in 1967: \u00a0“…we are two worlds.” …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}