{"id":55780,"date":"2016-09-25T23:28:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_tulsas_prayers_and_past_scars_softened_reaction_to_police_shooting\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T23:28:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:28:12","slug":"nyt_tulsas_prayers_and_past_scars_softened_reaction_to_police_shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55780","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Tulsa\u2019s Prayers, and Past Scars, Softened Reaction to Police Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White rioters poured into the streets, burning and looting homes, businesses and churches in a black neighborhood and leaving this city deeply traumatized. That was 1921.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, not far from where those haunting events took place, the streets of Tulsa were calm after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black motorist. The video of the shooting angered many Tulsa residents, but the subdued reaction was markedly different from the violent clashes that took place in Charlotte, N.C., in recent days, after the police killed a man there.<\/p>\n<p>Why one place erupts and another does not is never easy to discern. Tulsa quickly released videos showing the facts. But some here trace part of the reason for Tulsa\u2019s emphasis on prayer, and not protest, in recent days to the lingering scars of the 1921 riot, which is regarded as one of the deadliest race riots in the country\u2019s history and still lingers in Tulsa\u2019s consciousness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/24\/us\/tulsa-police-shooting-reaction.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White rioters poured into the streets, burning and looting homes, businesses and churches in a black neighborhood and leaving this city deeply traumatized. That was 1921. Last week, not far from where those haunting events took place, the streets of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55780\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,175,615,168,133,114,177,578,151,120,108,34,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-city-government","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-pastoral-theology","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}