{"id":9312,"date":"2017-05-05T07:25:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2017-05-05T07:25:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:25:33","slug":"maybe-a-new-game-in-the-offing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/05\/maybe-a-new-game-in-the-offing\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe A New Game In The Offing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelly Macias on The Daily Kos <\/b><\/i>notes<\/a> Alabama’s regressive politicians and their attachment to monuments for slavery:<\/p>\n

Oh, Alabama\u2014forever taking a few tiny steps forward toward progress and a whole bunch backward. The state that represents\u00a0the tenacity and determination of\u00a0the civil rights movement just took a giant leap back toward its \u201cSegregation Now, Segregation Forever\u201d George Wallace days with the passage of its latest bill<\/a>. Alabama lawmakers in the House of Representatives passed a measure on Thursday forbidding any changes to Confederate or long-standing monuments in the state. The bill now heads to the Senate for approval.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seems to me an enterprising developer could put out a smartphone app which, when viewed through the camera, recognizes all these monuments and labels them with the appropriate information concerning how they related to slavery, and perhaps some useful addendums such as the cruel punishments used to keep the slaves in line, the lynchings, etc. It’d be a little like Pok\u00e9mon Go.<\/b><\/p>\n

Monuments have consequences, but the consequences won’t reflect reality so long as historical revisionism obscures them. The Civil War, from the very speeches of the rebellious politicians, was about slavery. In the end, so are the monuments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kelly Macias on The Daily Kos notes Alabama’s regressive politicians and their attachment to monuments for slavery: Oh, Alabama\u2014forever taking a few tiny steps forward toward progress and a whole bunch backward. The state that represents\u00a0the tenacity and determination of\u00a0the civil rights movement just took a giant leap back toward \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9313,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions\/9313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}