{"id":12504,"date":"2015-06-19T23:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T23:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-confederate-flags-defenders-often-claim-it\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T23:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T23:06:50","slug":"the-confederate-flags-defenders-often-claim-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-confederate-flags-defenders-often-claim-it\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Confederate flag\u2019s defenders often claim it represents \u201cheritage not hate.\u201d I agree\u2014the heritage of White Supremacy was not so much birthed by hate as by the impulse toward plunder. Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. An entire people are poorer for his action. The flag that Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, does not stand in opposition this act\u2014it endorses it. That the Confederate flag is the symbol of of white supremacists is evidenced by the very words of those who birthed it\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/06\/take-down-the-confederate-flag-now\/396290\/\">Take Down the Confederate Flag<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/azspot.net\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">azspot<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederate flag\u2019s defenders often claim it represents \u201cheritage not hate.\u201d I agree\u2014the heritage of White Supremacy was not so much birthed by hate as by the impulse toward plunder. Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3fG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}