{"id":1540,"date":"2008-06-21T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2010-11-23T23:50:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:50:29","slug":"black-men-not-allowed-to-be-angry-not-even-about-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/21\/black-men-not-allowed-to-be-angry-not-even-about-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Men Not Allowed to be Angry, Not Even About Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/21\/obamas-thin-line-between-angry-and-elite\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;angry black man&#8221; stereotype<\/a> and the idea that being angry about racism is out-of-line (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lisa-wade\/what-the-obama-sock-monke_b_108047.html\" target=\"_blank\">see point three after the block quote<\/a>), a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. commissioned by the U.S. government was considered too angry looking by the U.S. Commission On Fine Arts (see news stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/metro\/stories\/2008\/06\/19\/mlk_statue_approved.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jLl4emhjf-wo_ZWxQhcP-YzR7VQgD91DFOK00\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).  Its sculptor was required to make him seem less &#8220;confrontational&#8221; before it was allowed to be installed on the National Mall in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/06\/race-mlk-jr-not-allowed-to-be-mad-about-racism-2.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1541 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/06\/race-mlk-jr-not-allowed-to-be-mad-about-racism-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/tag\/martin-luther-king-jr%27\/?i=5018193&amp;t=angry-black-statue-given-smiley-face\" target=\"_blank\">Gawker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the &#8220;angry black man&#8221; stereotype and the idea that being angry about racism is out-of-line (see point three after the block quote), a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. commissioned by the U.S. government was considered too angry looking by the U.S. Commission On Fine Arts (see news stories here and here). Its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8070,329,304,283,285,1760],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artliterature","tag-emotion","tag-the-state","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29524,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/29524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}