{"id":15555,"date":"2016-06-15T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T01:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15555"},"modified":"2016-06-15T22:01:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T02:01:25","slug":"michelle-obama-is-going-to-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15555","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama is going to Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/michelle-obama-daughters-visit-liberia-morocco-spain-white-194151188.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/michelle-obama-daughters-visit-liberia-morocco-spain-white-194151188.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully she will learn about the suppression of black Africans by the mixed race former slaves who had run the country since James Monroe thought it would be noble to send former slaves &#8220;home&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Between War and Peace - Liberia\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DXKyuZrd3Bg?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><\/p>\n<p>For a taste of the ongoing conflict<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wandering-through-time-and-place.me\/tag\/americo-liberians\/\">https:\/\/wandering-through-time-and-place.me\/tag\/americo-liberians\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On April 22, 1980, thirteen Americo-Liberians were driven down to Monrovia\u2019s Barclay Beach in a VW van, tied to telephone poles, and shot without blindfolds. One soldier was so drunk he couldn\u2019t hit the man he had been assigned to kill. Afterwards, the bodies were stacked in a pile and sprayed with bullets before being tumbled into a mass grave. It marked the beginning of a tragedy that would see the death of over 200, 000 Liberians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The current President is a mixed race woman with German ancestory, but not a descendent of the former American slaves.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rima-merhi\/liberia-citizenship-discrimination_b_1703388.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rima-merhi\/liberia-citizenship-discrimination_b_1703388.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/michelle-obama-daughters-visit-liberia-morocco-spain-white-194151188.html Hopefully she will learn about the suppression of black Africans by the mixed race former slaves who had run the country since James Monroe thought it would be noble to send former slaves &#8220;home&#8221; For a taste of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15559,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions\/15559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}