{"id":1843,"date":"2005-03-29T03:04:26","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T08:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/cleansing-the-past\/"},"modified":"2005-03-29T03:04:26","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T08:04:26","slug":"cleansing-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/cleansing-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"cleansing the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/print?id=621605\" class=\"broken_link\">University of Georgia to Alter Mural<\/a> [ap via abcnews,  march 29,  2005]<\/div>\n<p>University of Georgia officials said Monday they would alter a wall-sized mural commemorating the school&#8217;s integration because of complaints it contained a racial slur.<\/p>\n<p>The mural features a photo of the former Charlayne Hunter, the first black woman admitted to the university, pushing her way through a mob in 1961, along with the highlighted quote of words shouted then: &#8220;Make way for the nigger.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>this bothers me for two reasons&#8230; one is that it is about the legacy, and it&#8217;s a bitter, controversial and emotionally-charged legacy.  second is that i&#8217;d never have known about this mural if it weren&#8217;t for the racial slur it included, so the art worked.  once it&#8217;s altered and this vanishes into the archives, i&#8217;ll forget about it, and that&#8217;s not a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Georgia to Alter Mural [ap via abcnews, march 29, 2005] University of Georgia officials said Monday they would alter a wall-sized mural commemorating the school&#8217;s integration because of complaints it contained a racial slur. The mural features a photo of the former Charlayne Hunter, the first black woman admitted to the university, pushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}