{"id":6306,"date":"2017-02-19T21:21:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:17:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:17:37","slug":"spotlights-are-not-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/19\/spotlights-are-not-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlights Are Not The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 19, 2017<br \/>\nThe\u00a0Multiracial Activist<br \/>\nFrom the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, I signed (on behalf of The Multiracial Activist) a few new coalition letters in support of whistle-blower protections.<\/p>\n<p>It feels good to see civil liberties work escalating on this issue again. I&#8217;ve been involved on whistle-blower campaigns several times over the last two decades. I honestly don&#8217;t care who that upsets. If government (and fascist apologists) truly want to address whistle-blowing, then stop engaging in abhorrent activities that beg to be exposed to the light <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">of day.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Sorry to disappoint both Trump and Clinton apologists, but those candidates were open supporters of retaliation, suppression, silencing and yes &#8211; state-sanctioned murder with regard to the treatment of whistle-blowers. Neither showed an ounce of courage in honestly addressing the actual issues exposed.<\/p>\n<p>When the person exposing a crime is hated more than the crime itself, that speaks volumes about the corruptibility of power and the cult of personality that protects the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Power is the problem, not the spotlight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>James Landrith<br \/>\nFounder and Publisher<br \/>\nThe Multiracial Activist<br \/>\nand The Abolitionist Examiner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2017 The\u00a0Multiracial Activist From the Editor: Today, I signed (on behalf of The Multiracial Activist) a few new coalition letters in support of whistle-blower protections. It feels good to see civil liberties&#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":true,"_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":true,"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":[142,128],"class_list":["post-6306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-advocacy-letters","tag-civil-liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1DI","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\/6306","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=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6310,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions\/6310"}],"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=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}