{"id":3305,"date":"2023-01-16T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2023-01-03T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T17:25:14","slug":"a-reminder-of-why-i-a-nominally-white-jew-love-mlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/01\/a-reminder-of-why-i-a-nominally-white-jew-love-mlk\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder of why I (a nominally White Jew) love MLK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brief reflections on MLK Day from a younger me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/01\/dr-martin-luther-king-the-eight-commandments-and-bending-the-arc-of-history\/\">Dr. Martin Luther King, the Eight Commandments, and Bending the Arc of History<\/a>&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember:&nbsp;<strong><em>The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice<\/em>\u2014provided that we get up every morning and put our weight towards&nbsp;<em>bending<\/em>&nbsp;that mutherfucker. It ain\u2019t gonna bend on its own.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coming to America (6\/10) Movie CLIP - Akeem Goes to the Barber (1988) HD\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHUML0EZ1BQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief reflections on MLK Day from a younger me: &#8220;Dr. Martin Luther King, the Eight Commandments, and Bending the Arc of History&#8221; Remember:&nbsp;The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice\u2014provided that we get up every morning and put our weight towards&nbsp;bending&nbsp;that mutherfucker. It ain\u2019t gonna bend on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[867,127,856,530,572],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/109699945598478915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}