{"id":594,"date":"2016-07-11T04:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T04:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2020-06-29T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T12:41:23","slug":"another-dark-night-had-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"Another dark night has passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I followed the BLM protests in NPN very closely tonight. \u00a0I have very close friends with dark skin &#8211; some of my children have really dark skin. \u00a0Yet, whatever your shade, if you want to identify with those with &#8216;black skin&#8217;: let me say this: Dark skin is beautiful, but white skin is too; so is every. shade. in-between.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s really the people behind the color that are beautiful, not the color itself &#8211; and some people, despite their color, are rotten. \u00a0Can you really judge everyone who shares a certain shade of melanin by the actions of other similar shades? \u00a0Every person is unique, every situation is different; \u00a0It isn&#8217;t the skin color that makes you who you are; it is who you are inside and what you do, that makes you who you are.<\/p>\n<p>That said, racism is stupid; the distinction based on skin color is stupid: people are people.<\/p>\n<p>As it relates to tonight&#8217;s local protests: I have no idea what blocking traffic does to accomplish the recognition that people are people; but I&#8217;m glad there was no reported violence &#8211; at least that still leaves our local community with the option to move forward with life without fear of continuous reprisals.<\/p>\n<p>I am proud of our community that it remained non-violent; and yet ask of us all: aren&#8217;t there better ways?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/family_2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-592\" src=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/family_2015.jpg\" alt=\"family_2015\" width=\"960\" height=\"628\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teach your children at home, to understand that we are all created in His image; formed from the same seed, valued in the same way. \u00a0Don&#8217;t teach division and segregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I followed the BLM protests in NPN very closely tonight. \u00a0I have very close friends with dark skin &#8211; some of my children have really dark skin. \u00a0Yet, whatever your shade, if you want to identify with those with &#8216;black skin&#8217;: let me say this: Dark skin is beautiful, but white skin is too; so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another dark night has passed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","category-family","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/family_2015.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}