{"id":31512,"date":"2018-08-04T21:40:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31512"},"modified":"2018-08-04T21:40:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T21:40:27","slug":"common-denominator-with-sports-figures-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31512","title":{"rendered":"Common denominator with sports figures and Trump?"},"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>The Hill newspaper has posted an item online that chronicles the sports figures who have clashed with Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I am struck, as are you, with the common denominator that stands out. All the celebrities are African-American.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/400379-sports-stars-trump-has-clashed-with\">Check out the story here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sports figures &#8212; and I use the term <em>&#8220;figures&#8221;<\/em> because one of the men mentioned is LaVar Ball, the loudmouth father of a pro basketball player, LiAngelo Ball &#8212; all have gotten into beefs with the president, who has taken to Twitter to castigate them.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a mere coincidence that all these individuals are black?<\/p>\n<p>Or &#8230; is the president singling out these fellows <em>because<\/em> of their racial background?<\/p>\n<p>I hate thinking that the president is a racist. The evidence continues to mount that the president&#8217;s worst instincts are proving to be so tragically true.<\/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>The Hill newspaper has posted an item online that chronicles the sports figures who have clashed with Donald J. Trump. I am struck, as are you, with the common denominator that stands out. All the celebrities are African-American. Check out the story here The sports figures &#8212; and I use the term &#8220;figures&#8221; because one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Common denominator with sports figures and Trump?<\/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":[17],"tags":[1424,2754,7357],"class_list":["post-31512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-lebron-james","tag-take-a-knee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512","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=31512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31513,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512\/revisions\/31513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}