{"id":21596,"date":"2015-08-22T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21596"},"modified":"2015-08-22T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:08:22","slug":"sandra-bland-was-arrested-because-she-failed-the-attitude-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/08\/22\/sandra-bland-was-arrested-because-she-failed-the-attitude-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Bland Was Arrested Because She Failed the \u201cAttitude Test\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>attn<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attn.com\/stories\/2758\/sandra-bland-attitude-test-police?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=rerun1&#038;utm_campaign=reruns\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"attn article\">Sandra Bland Was Arrested Because She Failed the \u201cAttitude Test\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhite people in the suburbs as they go about their business don\u2019t get stopped, or maybe they\u2019d understand this.<\/p>\n<p>But people get tired. That\u2019s one of the reasons we get these failures of the &#8220;attitude test&#8221;\u2014it happens when people are done. They\u2019re like, \u201cAgain? Really? I don\u2019t get to go to the store? I don\u2019t get to walk my kid to school? I don\u2019t get to live in the world that everybody else lives in in a normal way without getting harassed, without getting hassled, without getting searched?\u201d And you can be nice 364 days of the year and have one bad day, and you go to jail. Or you die. Because people just get tired. That\u2019s what I see with clients. They\u2019re just tired. They\u2019re tired of it. And it\u2019s like, how much more can you expect?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Consider how sick and tired you have to be to risk death.  Have you ever been that sick and tired of something?<\/p>\n<p>The whole article is something that the white fans of Bernie Sanders need to understand. I have taken the attitude test myself on a few occasions. Usually I start with the attitude that I am going to pass it with flying colors when there is the slightest possibility that I have actually done something wrong. I never fail it. On an occasion or two, under slightly better circumstances, I have played with taking the test. However, I always sense when it is time to stop pushing the boundaries. That&#8217;s called white privilege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>attn has the article Sandra Bland Was Arrested Because She Failed the \u201cAttitude Test\u201d. White people in the suburbs as they go about their business don\u2019t get stopped, or maybe they\u2019d understand this. But people get tired. That\u2019s one of the reasons we get these failures of the &#8220;attitude test&#8221;\u2014it happens when people are done. [&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-21596","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\/21596","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=21596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21597,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions\/21597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}