{"id":31737,"date":"2020-07-30T10:05:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31737"},"modified":"2020-07-30T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:46:25","slug":"protest-1-tom-cottons-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31737","title":{"rendered":"Protest #1 Tom Cotton&#8217;s Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas the state that gave us Orvile Faubus and Eisenhower&#8217;s federal troops to protect a few black students integrating Ark City High has recently explained how good slavery was for America its being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/27\/politics\/tom-cotton-slavery-necessary-evil-1619-project\/index.html\">a &#8220;necessary evil.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1920 during the Red Summer Arkansas was the scene of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/30\/opinion\/elaine-massacre-1919-arkansas.html\">one of the worst massacres of black people<\/a> in our History. <\/p>\n<p>But even I was taken aback by this distilation of the white supremecy of an Arkansas town famed for chasing out blacks decades ago and being the home of KKK.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ltmlvk9GAto\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas the state that gave us Orvile Faubus and Eisenhower&#8217;s federal troops to protect a few black students integrating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737"}],"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=31737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31747,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737\/revisions\/31747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}