{"id":1038,"date":"2014-05-13T18:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2014-05-13T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:26:59","slug":"black-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/05\/13\/black-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Black in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8pfpo_BjFRo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m much more worried by an apparently fascist government in Ukraine that is supported by the US\/EU, Russia clearly has an extremely bad problem with racism. Anyone who is not very pale is described as &#8216;black&#8217; but the &#8216;blacker&#8217; you are the harder it is. There are a number of videos on YouTube describing the hardships black people face but I found this one particularly interesting for its more intimate and strangely poignant glimpse at the life of an African family living in a Russian village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m much more worried by an apparently fascist government in Ukraine that is supported by the US\/EU, Russia clearly has an extremely bad problem with racism. Anyone who is not very pale is described as &#8216;black&#8217; but the &#8216;blacker&#8217; you are the harder it is. There are a number of videos on YouTube&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/05\/13\/black-in-russia\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":[45,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}