{"id":22876,"date":"2017-09-05T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22876"},"modified":"2017-09-05T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:05:19","slug":"mowing-the-lawn-and-cutting-my-hair-and-other-trimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22876","title":{"rendered":"mowing the lawn and cutting my hair and other trimming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost eleven and I’ve been busy getting ready to pass out more flyers. Hope my unruly hair doesn’t put people off. I have to trim it and my lawn which has grown equally unruly with all the rain. I just got a call from my friend Tim of “Driving while black” who features in my DWB posts<\/a>. He offered to pass out literature with me for a couple hours today after I snuck in a couple of quick posts. <\/p>\n

And on the theme of minority board members MPR had a revealing story<\/a> today about how white Minnesota school boards are. I noted that myself in an August 8th post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

By the way, I took some of those cards to the MSBA conference thinking they could serve as my new \u201cbusiness card.\u201d I ended up only passing out a few. A half dozen went to African American board members and administrators. Their numbers are soaring over their numbers twenty years ago when I went with Mary Cameron to similar conferences. I\u2019d judge they constituted a magnificent .016% of yesterday\u2019s attendees. That is a ten fold improvement over what was closer to a .0016% twenty years ago. As one black superintendent told me when I gave him my card \u201cpeople of color\u201d would need to count on people like me (colorless I guess) for support on the equity front because there just weren\u2019t all that many of them in positions of power in good old Minnesota.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By the way, I’ve been heartened in some of my door-to\\-door conversations with parents of eastern children who deplore the uneven spending that kids in the western schools are getting. Until we can think of a better solution some of them seem willing to endure a trim for the greater good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost eleven and I’ve been busy getting ready to pass out more flyers. Hope my unruly hair doesn’t put people off. I have to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22877,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22876\/revisions\/22877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}