{"id":2506,"date":"2017-08-20T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T05:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2017-08-20T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T05:52:16","slug":"racial-history-in-the-solar-eclipse-path-of-totality-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2506","title":{"rendered":"Racial History in the Solar Eclipse Path of Totality &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/08\/american-totality-eclipse-race\/537318\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/lead_960.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will arrive mid-morning on the coast of Oregon. The moon\u2019s shadow will be about 70 miles wide, and it will race across the country faster than the speed of sound, exiting the eastern seaboard shortly before 3 p.m. local time. It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The eclipse is racist!<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayou Renaissance Man<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/democracyjournal.org\/arguments\/blackout\/\">Racial History in the Solar Eclipse Path of Totality &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will arrive mid-morning on the coast of Oregon. The moon\u2019s shadow will be about 70 miles wide, and it will race across the country faster than the speed of sound, exiting the eastern seaboard shortly before 3 p.m. local time. It has been dubbed the Great American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2506\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racial History in the Solar Eclipse Path of Totality &#8211; The Atlantic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,125,75,89,76,99,100,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing","category-education-higher-ed","category-democrats","category-liberals","category-racists","category-mental-illness","category-science","category-science-astronomy","category-snowflakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}