{"id":2893,"date":"2024-06-20T00:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T00:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2024-06-20T00:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T00:03:48","slug":"juneteeth-good-team-players-breezy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"Juneteeth; good team players; breezy days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Michael Zone Center, Cleveland (coach Joe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s “Juneteenth.”<\/strong> A holiday to commemorate the emancipation from slavery. Yet slavery persists, to this day. For instance, many Black youth are ‘slaves’ to transgenerational poverty loops in our inner cities. Our family moved to a hardscrabble area of Cleveland (just adjacent to the inner city) to do outreach into the neighborhood with a group of Catholic Workers<\/strong>. We saw the poverty first-hand. We saw how kids are trapped down there. My wife and I coached some Rec. Center teams made up of, primarily, “latch key kids.” We helped with a community garden for neighborhood kids. We volunteered at a Drop-In Center for kids, and adults, alike. Our position paper on “Black Amends,” <\/a>calls for, among other things, a Marshall Plan<\/strong> to rebuild our urban cores and inspire others more well off to move back into these inner cities to live in solidarity with the poor, helping them to get a leg up on the slavery of poverty… In the last couple weeks: I covered a graduation ceremony where a coach, who was the keynote speaker, told the graduates that it was “extremely important” to be good team players in life… I also covered a local council meeting where there was discussion about adding a couple more tornado sirens (there’s just one currently) to the town — because residents were complaining that on “breezy days,” it was hard to hear the current one on the outskirts of town. “Breezy days.”<\/em> Uh… I love small town council meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Zone Center, Cleveland (coach Joe) It’s “Juneteenth.” A holiday to commemorate the emancipation from slavery. Yet slavery persists, to this day. For instance, many Black youth are ‘slaves’ to transgenerational poverty loops in our inner cities. Our family moved …<\/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-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}