{"id":848931,"date":"2022-10-21T05:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T05:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=260951"},"modified":"2022-10-21T05:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T05:51:10","slug":"the-day-glo-elephant-in-a-darkening-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/21\/the-day-glo-elephant-in-a-darkening-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day-Glo Elephant in a Darkening Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading James Henry Harris\u2019s N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic (Fortress Press, 2021) recalls, first, a vibe from Richard Wright\u2019s Native Son (1940), To Bigger and his kind, white people were not really people; they were a sort of great natural force, like a stormy sky looming overhead  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/21\/the-day-glo-elephant-in-a-darkening-room\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/21\/the-day-glo-elephant-in-a-darkening-room\/\">The Day-Glo Elephant in a Darkening Room<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/21\/the-day-glo-elephant-in-a-darkening-room\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading James Henry Harris\u2019s N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic (Fortress Press, 2021) recalls, first, a vibe from Richard Wright\u2019s Native Son (1940), To Bigger and his kind, white people were not really people; t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848932,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848931\/revisions\/848932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}