{"id":26760,"date":"2017-12-08T13:35:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26760"},"modified":"2017-12-08T13:35:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T13:35:59","slug":"this-is-what-one-could-call-a-toxic-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26760","title":{"rendered":"This is what one could call a &#8216;toxic&#8217; relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/civil-rights.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26761\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/civil-rights-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/civil-rights-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/civil-rights.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; just how toxic is the relationship between Donald Trump and the nation&#8217;s civil rights leadership?<\/p>\n<p>Get a load of this: U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., arguably the greatest living leader of the civil rights movement, plans to boycott the opening of a civil rights museum in Mississippi because the president of the United States will be there.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will occur Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>I am torn on this one. Lewis&#8217;s statement talks about the inflammatory rhetoric the president has uttered since taking office. He has taken extreme offense at Trump&#8217;s statements about race relations, not to mention his terrible initial response to the Charlottesville, Va., riot spawned by the presence of white supremacists, Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s participation in the museum dedication, though, is noteworthy. If only he hadn&#8217;t built up a disgraceful record of clumsy statements that many have interpreted as being overtly racist.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the kind of history, according to Rep. Lewis, that the president cannot erase with a simple public appearance.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; just how toxic is the relationship between Donald Trump and the nation&#8217;s civil rights leadership? Get a load of this: U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., arguably the greatest living leader of the civil rights movement, plans to boycott the opening of a civil rights museum in Mississippi because the president of the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is what one could call a &#8216;toxic&#8217; relationship<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1008,1424,2545,3798],"class_list":["post-26760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-civil-rights","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-lewis","tag-race-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26762,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760\/revisions\/26762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}