{"id":717,"date":"2018-05-01T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=717"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:17:20","slug":"ugly-truth-black-professor-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2018\/05\/01\/ugly-truth-black-professor-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Truth of Being a Black Professor in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">&#8220;D<\/span>ear Nigger Professor.&#8221; That was the beginning of a message that was sent to me. There is nothing to be cherished here, despite the salutation. Years ago, Malcolm X asked, &#8220;What does a white man call a black man with a Ph.D.?&#8221; He answered: &#8220;A nigger with a Ph.D.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The message came in response to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/24\/dear-white-america\/\">an op-ed<\/a>\u00a0I published in\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0in December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/The-Ugly-Truth-of-Being-a\/243234?cid=wsinglestory_hp_1\">entire post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dear Nigger Professor.&#8221; That was the beginning of a message that was sent to me. There is nothing to be cherished here, despite the salutation. Years ago, Malcolm X asked, &#8220;What does a white man call a black man with a Ph.D.?&#8221; He answered: &#8220;A nigger with a Ph.D.&#8221; The message came in response to\u00a0an&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2018\/05\/01\/ugly-truth-black-professor-america\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}