{"id":3179,"date":"2006-06-21T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2017-12-16T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T13:06:26","slug":"inauthentic-without-homeless-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/inauthentic-without-homeless-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauthentic Without Homeless People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From this recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/columnists.nsf\/sylvesterbrownjr\/story\/CAB8A3F435CEDA52862571930032670F?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">column by Sylvester Brown, Jr.,<\/a> for the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>, we get the following stunning insight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His comment reminded me of a call I received from Erin Earley, 46, who had attended the recent Rib America Festival downtown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been going for eight years and have really enjoyed it. But this year, it took a real turn,&#8221; Earley, who described herself as Irish, told me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were few people of color, no blues or R&#038;B acts, just bad rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll bands. They also charged a $3 cover for some unknown reason. I wondered if a white people&#8217;s &#8216;Da Vinci Code&#8217; had been put in place,&#8221; Earley said, <b>suggesting that event planners had sent subtle messages to keep the homeless and people of color away.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A priori assumptions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rib America is somehow less authentic without homeless people.\n<li>The same signals work on homeless people as on people of color.<\/ul>\n<p>Well, if that statement, with its set of a priori assumptions, doesn&#8217;t express what&#8217;s wrong with race relations today, I don&#8217;t know what does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this recent column by Sylvester Brown, Jr., for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, we get the following stunning insight: His comment reminded me of a call I received from Erin Earley, 46, who had attended the recent Rib America Festival downtown. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been going for eight years and have really enjoyed it. But this year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18695,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/18695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}