{"id":6586,"date":"2015-10-26T18:38:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T01:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:40:02","slug":"black-lives-matter-is-a-bunch-of-grandstanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2015\/10\/26\/black-lives-matter-is-a-bunch-of-grandstanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter is a bunch of grandstanders."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1445909753_full.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1445909753_thumb.png\" align=\"left\" class=\"alignleft\"><\/a>Was watching the news and the Black Lives Matter crowd messing with the Mayor of LA.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad really, because they just don\u2019t seem to understand their behavior is depriving the community at large from being able to bring  other legitimate issues to the Mayor\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>When you have a vocal group showing up and taking center stage the rest of the community is unlikely to show up at future meetings. After all why bother? Your crosswalk concern, or the sidewalks in your neighborhood that have become dangerous due to lack of maintenance will not be addressed because Black Lives Matter\u2019s grandstanding will have the following effect.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will be terminated and no-one will be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter has been increasingly demonstrating that they\u2019re disinterested in actually solving problems they\u2019re far more interested in getting their faces on TV and looking like they\u2019re important.<\/p>\n<p>I respect Rev. Sauls of Holman United Methodist Church asking for an apology from the Black Lives Matter crowd. He deserves one, since the Black Lives Matter crowd was in his face and threatening him.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Lives Matter crowd OWES all the other folks from the community an apology too. Because rather than allowing community issues to be discussed with The Mayor, they wasted everyone\u2019s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was watching the news and the Black Lives Matter crowd messing with the Mayor of LA. It\u2019s sad really, because they just don\u2019t seem to understand their behavior is depriving the community at large from being able to bring other legitimate issues to the Mayor\u2019s attention. When you have a vocal group showing up and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2015\/10\/26\/black-lives-matter-is-a-bunch-of-grandstanders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Lives Matter is a bunch of grandstanders.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit","category-sjw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}