{"id":4876,"date":"2003-10-17T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:42:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:42:23","slug":"reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/10\/17\/reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Herbert on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/17\/opinion\/17HERB.html\">An Ugly Game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I&#8217;m not feeling sorry for David Chang, the game&#8217;s beleaguered 28-year-old creator. What I&#8217;d like to know is why all this outrage is springing up over a board game when so little is heard in the way of protest about the outlandishly self-destructive behavior that gives rise to a game like Ghettopoly, and which is burying any chance of a viable future for extraordinary numbers of young black men and women, and their children.<\/p>\n<p>How can you march against a game and not march against the real-life slaughter on the streets and in the homes of inner cities across America? Violent crime, ignorance and disease are carving the very heart out of America&#8217;s black population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Herbert on An Ugly Game: &#8230;I&#8217;m not feeling sorry for David Chang, the game&#8217;s beleaguered 28-year-old creator. What I&#8217;d like to know is why all this outrage is springing up over a board&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[156,136],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-popular-culture-and-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1gE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7437,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/7437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}