{"id":503,"date":"2021-07-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2023-03-13T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T11:02:28","slug":"race2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Its not coming home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago my brother and I spoke about the image of&nbsp;<a style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: #ffffff; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; color: var(--color-action); touch-action: manipulation; position: relative; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=raheemsterling&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6820258475801624576\" data-attribute-index=\"0\">#raheemsterling<\/a>&nbsp;with his head in his hands a few seconds after giving the ball away against Germany in a football game, aware that they could score.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Germany didn\u2019t score.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And&nbsp;<a style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: #ffffff; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; color: var(--color-action); touch-action: manipulation; position: relative; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=raheemsterling&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6820258475801624576\" data-attribute-index=\"1\">#raheemsterling<\/a>&nbsp;dropped to his knees in relief. However, three of his Black team mates missed penalties in the final of the same competition. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6820258475801624576\/\">here<\/a> to read about the consequences of those misses, and what we need to do to address racism from social media.<\/p>\n<p>#blackprofessionals #race #letstalk #racialequity # #diversity #inclusion #globalmovement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago my brother and I spoke about the image of&nbsp;#raheemsterling&nbsp;with his head in his hands a few seconds after giving the ball away against Germany in a football game, aware that they could score.&nbsp; Germany didn\u2019t score.&nbsp; And&nbsp;#raheemsterling&nbsp;dropped to his knees in relief. However, three of his Black team mates missed penalties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.derekbruce-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}