{"id":1874,"date":"2019-01-21T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2019-01-21T16:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:57:35","slug":"martin-luther-king-day-2019-and-black-amends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Day (2019)&#8230; and &#8220;Black Amends&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"297\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/liz-on-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/liz-on-bridge.jpg 441w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/liz-on-bridge-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><figcaption>Earlier in our campaign travels we stopped in Selma, Alabama.  Part of extensive cross-country touring included teaching our children American history.  Here my wife Liz is explaining to our Sarah about &#8220;Bloody Sunday&#8221; at the Emund Pettus Bridge. &#8211;photo by Joe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  Our campaign\/research travels took us all over the country in the past 20 years, or so, to look at, among a host of things, Black issues.  We volunteered at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, which was the backwater version of Selma\/Montgomery.  We followed the Voting Rights March route between Selma and Montgomery.  We did an &#8220;Underground Railroad Tour&#8221; from the deep south to Ohio.  We lived, for extended periods (and did outreach) in hardscrabble areas of Cleveland and Atlanta looking, first hand, at issues facing Blacks who have been trapped in inter-generational poverty loops.  And more&#8230;  From this exposure, including interviews with a variety of people who have developed models to help, we have crafted a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/black-amends\">&#8220;Black Amends&#8221; position paper<\/a> that would go a long way in making things right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Our campaign\/research travels took us all over the country in the past 20 years, or so, to look at, among a host of things, Black issues. We volunteered at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, which <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1874\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","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=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}