{"id":1906,"date":"2020-06-10T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=1906"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:33:38","slug":"now-is-the-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/now-is-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is the time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I just heard &#8220;Mr. Nice Guy&#8221; say &#8220;Now is the time for social justice&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This from a guy who has spent over forty years as a member of <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>the Washington, DC. power circle. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>What was he doing all that time besides chairing a committee<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>that savaged and slandered Anita Hill, and fathering a crime bill <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>that dumped on black people big time, big time behind bars that is, <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>and all the corresponding grief that resulted.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Now <\/em>is the time for social justice?, are you kidding me;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>the time for social justice was four hundred years ago when the first <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>slave ship reached our shores. That the people on board that ship <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>were treated as objects, not as human beings, is a forever stain on <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>this nation which will never be removed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Islander.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard &#8220;Mr. Nice Guy&#8221; say &#8220;Now is the time for social justice&#8221;. This from a guy who has spent over forty years as a member of the Washington, DC. power circle. What was he doing all that time besides chairing a committee that savaged and slandered Anita Hill, and fathering a crime bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/now-is-the-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now is the time?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1906","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1906\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}