{"id":7863,"date":"2010-05-03T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/05\/03\/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:21:32","slug":"race-in-america-homepage-hot-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Media Wants You to Think About Black Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After years of inattention, in the past month, the mainstream media has suddenly turned its eye toward black women. And the resulting coverage, filtered through a pretty jaundiced lens, is enough to make me wish the world had never &#8220;discovered&#8221; us. Here are the messages we&#8217;ve heard: 1). Men don&#8217;t want us. 2). We don&#8217;t have any money. 3). We&#8217;re fat and unhealthy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/race.change.org\/blog\/view\/what_the_media_wants_you_to_think_about_black_women\">Check  it out<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of inattention, in the past month, the mainstream media has suddenly turned its eye toward black women. And the resulting coverage, filtered through a pretty jaundiced lens, is enough to make me wish the world had never &#8220;discovered&#8221; us. Here are the messages we&#8217;ve heard: 1). Men don&#8217;t want us. 2). We don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What the Media Wants You to Think About Black Women<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[61],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-22P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}