{"id":1254,"date":"2009-07-22T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T23:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2009-07-22T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T23:56:01","slug":"president-obama-speaks-out-on-gates-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Speaks Out On Gates Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"dd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/07\/22\/harvard.gates.interview\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ARTICLE FROM cnn.com (Full story click here)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/art_gates_cnn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1255 alignright\" title=\"art_gates_cnn\" src=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/art_gates_cnn.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>President Barack Obama spoke out about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates at his press conference regarding health care.<\/p>\n<p>I am very happy the President said what he said about African American men and Hispanics being stopped by the police.<\/p>\n<p>As a African American man, every time I see the Seattle police, I think I am going to be stopped for something. That is just the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Gates is one of the most respected African American in America. For him to be arrested trying to enter his own home is unforgivable and tremendously unfair.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gates says he now has a story tell more than ever about how African American men are treated by the police and how black men are treated period.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I am glad our President spoke out on the issue.   Gordon Curvey<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please listen to &#8220;Music Inner City Radio&#8221; Urban sports news and issues, entertainment and President Obama news and &#8220;Classic Soul&#8221; music. Just click the link above.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTICLE FROM cnn.com (Full story click here) P.S. President Barack Obama spoke out about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates at his press conference regarding health care. I am very happy the President said what he said about African American men and Hispanics being stopped by the police. As a African American man, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}