{"id":45389,"date":"2013-02-28T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=45389"},"modified":"2013-02-26T00:39:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T05:39:47","slug":"from-our-archives-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/02\/28\/from-our-archives-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Archives: Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/25.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45394\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/25.png 589w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/25-500x146.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a>On this last day of Black History Month, let us return to posts past.<\/p>\n<p>We have been urged to celebrate Black History Month&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;with <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/10\/the-paradox-of-black-history-month\/\" target=\"_self\">fried chicken and collard greens<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/17\/frying-chicken-and-collard-greens-headline-black-history-month-themed-flier\/\" target=\"_self\">No really, with fried chicken and collard greens<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/02\/celebrate-black-history-month-by-relaxing-your-hair\/\" target=\"_self\">relaxing our hair<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/09\/black-history-month-kool-aid-sale\/\">drinking kool-aid<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;by <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/07\/happy-late-black-history-month-faux-pas\/\">conflating them with &#8220;underprivileged&#8221; people<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;by <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/28\/black-people-let-your-new-life-begin\/\">feeling badly about how fat we are and thinking about surgery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;with <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/28\/the-compton-cookout-racism-resistance-and-backlash\/\" target=\"_self\">a &#8220;Compton Cookout&#8221; complete with blackface and nooses<\/a>! (pictured)<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;by <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/25\/black-history-month-about-skin-deep\/\" target=\"_self\">buying stuff from companies that do nothing but acknowledge Black History Month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;sarcasm&gt; Good times. &lt;\/sarcasm&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this last day of Black History Month, let us return to posts past. We have been urged to celebrate Black History Month&#8230; &#8230;with fried chicken and collard greens. No really, with fried chicken and collard greens! &#8230;by\u00a0relaxing our hair\u00a0and\u00a0drinking kool-aid. &#8230;by conflating them with &#8220;underprivileged&#8221; people. &#8230;by feeling badly about how fat we are [&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":[254],"class_list":["post-45389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45389","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=45389"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54077,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45389\/revisions\/54077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}