{"id":78127,"date":"2021-06-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78127"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:53:07","slug":"new-wrinkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78127","title":{"rendered":"New Wrinkle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When last we met Rashad Turner, he was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54999\">firebrand leader of the Saint Paul chapter of BLM<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a difference a couple years can make:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Truth Revealed about BLM\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wncYj2xfV6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>It would seem Turner started having misgivings about BLM for some of the same reasons I did &#8211; the organization joined with the Teachers union to piddle on the charter schools tha<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7136\">t are the lifeboats for so many kids, disproportionally minority<\/a>, in the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s appearing at an event tomorrow evening at Willy McCoy&#8217;s in, I believe, Champlin, along with Kendall Qualls, the former CD3 candidate who&#8217;s been running &#8220;TakeChargeMN&#8221; &#8211; the group that produced Turner&#8217;s video, and which is aiming to evangelize the black community on the things that used to make it strong; family, faith, and an actual education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When last we met Rashad Turner, he was the firebrand leader of the Saint Paul chapter of BLM. What a difference a couple years can make: It would seem Turner started having misgivings about BLM for some of the same reasons I did &#8211; the organization joined with the Teachers union to piddle on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78146,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78127\/revisions\/78146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}