{"id":11583,"date":"2016-07-07T20:45:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=11583"},"modified":"2018-01-30T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:34:02","slug":"too-much-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/too-much-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":"too much sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"

roxane gay’s devastating piece, “Alton Sterling and When Black Lives Stop Mattering”: <\/a><\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know where we go from here because those of us who recognize the injustice are not the problem. Law enforcement, militarized and indifferent to black lives, is the problem. Law enforcement that sees black people as criminals rather than human beings with full and deserving lives is the problem. A justice system that rarely prosecutes or convicts police officers who kill innocent people in the line of duty is the problem. That this happens so often that resignation or apathy are reasonable responses is the problem.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s overwhelming to see what we are up against, to live in a world where too many people have their fingers on the triggers of guns aimed directly at black people. I don\u2019t know what to do anymore. I don\u2019t know how to allow myself to feel grief and outrage while also thinking about change. I don\u2019t know how to believe change is possible when there is so much evidence to the contrary. I don\u2019t know how to feel that my life matters when there is so much evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

in other devastating news, a collection of videos<\/a> showing the mistreatment of blacks at the hands of police, and the poem “38”<\/a> by layli long soldier.<\/p>\n

donate to alton sterling’s family.<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

roxane gay’s devastating piece, “Alton Sterling and When Black Lives Stop Mattering”: I don\u2019t know where we go from here because those of us who recognize the injustice are not the problem. Law enforcement, militarized and indifferent to black lives, is the problem. Law enforcement that sees black people as criminals rather than human beings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11583"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13914,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions\/13914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}