{"id":18038,"date":"2014-08-28T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T00:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18038"},"modified":"2014-08-28T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T00:55:12","slug":"james-baldwin-on-the-dick-cavett-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/08\/28\/james-baldwin-on-the-dick-cavett-show\/","title":{"rendered":"James Baldwin on the Dick Cavett Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Wise posted the link to this video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152290711680969&#038;id=140254320968\" title=\"Time Wise's Facebook post\" target=\"_blank\">his Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/a6WlM1dca18?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>In a previous post <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/08\/19\/im-a-cop-if-you-dont-want-to-get-hurt-dont-challenge-me\/\" title=\"Previoius post\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI\u2019m a cop. If you don\u2019t want to get hurt, don\u2019t challenge me\u201d<\/a>, I suggested we should all think about figuratively putting on other people&#8217;s shoes to imagine how they might view an issue.  In this video clip, James Baldwin gives us a &#8220;shoe horn&#8221; to get those shoes on.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the greatest show horn ever invented for trying on other people&#8217;s shoes was the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0375679\/\" title=\"IMDB on Crash\" target=\"_blank\">Crash<\/a>.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/video\/screenplay\/vi2898198809\/\" title=\"Trailer for Crash on IMDB\" target=\"_blank\">trailer for the movie<\/a> gives you just a hint of what you are in for if you watch the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Wise posted the link to this video on his Facebook page. In a previous post \u201cI\u2019m a cop. If you don\u2019t want to get hurt, don\u2019t challenge me\u201d, I suggested we should all think about figuratively putting on other people&#8217;s shoes to imagine how they might view an issue. In this video clip, James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18043,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18038\/revisions\/18043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}