{"id":36545,"date":"2020-06-09T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36545"},"modified":"2020-06-09T03:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T03:13:09","slug":"black-lives-matter-comes-to-vidor-yes-vidor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36545","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Comes to Vidor—Yes, Vidor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vidor“Vidor, Texas, ” boomed the Reverend Michael Cooper, thin and tall in his cowboy hat, “will now be known for love! ” The crowd, assembled at a dilapidated pavilion on the grounds of Vidor’s Raymond Gould Community Center, cheered. Vidor has been known for many things–among them the activities of the neighbourhood Ku Klux Klan; its status as a “sundown town, ” in which blacks were not allowed in city limits after dark; and an ugly oppose in the early nineties over a federal effort to desegregate public housing in the city, which induced Texas Monthly, in a cover story that time, to describe Vidor as Texas’s “most hate-filled town.” The census calculates it to be 91 percent white-hot. So when term started to circulate that a Black…View Original Post<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Vidor, Texas, ” boomed the Reverend Michael Cooper, thin and tall in his cowboy hat, “will now be known for love! ” The crowd, assembled at a dilapidated pavilion on the grounds of Vidor’s Raymond Gould Community Center, cheered. Vidor has been known for many things–among them the activities of the neighbourhood Ku Klux Klan; …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1171,1041,20895],"class_list":["post-36545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-vidor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/vidor-protests-crowd-21591672390.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}