{"id":475,"date":"2006-08-18T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/18\/well_put_mr_sha\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T19:29:05","slug":"well_put_mr_sha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/18\/well_put_mr_sha\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Put, Mr. Sharpton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I wouldn&#8217;t have expected <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060818\/ap_on_el_ge\/sharpton_black_leaders_2\">to hear this<\/a> from Al Sharpton, so instead of applauding him, let me give him a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many potential young black leaders fall under the spell of the &#8220;gangster mentality&#8221; and are preventing themselves from making a positive impact in politics, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Sharpton, who is considering another run for president, faulted Hollywood and the record industry for making &#8220;gangsterism&#8221; seem cool and acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have got to get out of this gangster mentality, acting as if gangsterism and blackness are synonymous,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think that challenge has to be given to Hollywood and the record industry. I think we&#8217;ve allowed a whole generation of young people to feel that if they&#8217;re focused, they&#8217;re not black enough. If they speak well and act well, they&#8217;re acting white, and there&#8217;s nothing more racist than that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I wouldn&#8217;t have expected to hear this from Al Sharpton, so instead of applauding him, let me give him a standing ovation. Many potential young black leaders fall under the spell of the &#8220;gangster mentality&#8221; and are preventing themselves from making a positive impact in politics, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Thursday. \u2026Sharpton, who&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/18\/well_put_mr_sha\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}