{"id":12165,"date":"2017-09-28T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T19:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=12165"},"modified":"2017-09-28T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T19:50:50","slug":"this-isnt-just-a-black-story-this-is-an-american-story","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/this-isnt-just-a-black-story-this-is-an-american-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Isn\u2019t Just a Black Story. This Is an American Story.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Carlos Javier Ortiz<\/strong>, director, cinematographer, and documentary photographer, recently spoke with Boston University School of Public Health (SPH) students and Pulitzer fellows <strong>Lauryn Claassen<\/strong> and <strong>Madeline Bishop<\/strong> as part of a joint project with the College of Communication highlighting gun violence in the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe need to look at how the narrative is dictated,\u201d Ortiz says. Referring to when a mass shooting makes the news, \u201cthe way I see it dictated is, \u2018This is a tragedy, this person is crazy, responsible gun owners don\u2019t do this, somehow this person got their hands on a gun and shot someone.\u2019\u201d But in historically marginalized communities, \u201cWe hear about black-on-black crime and how as a community, brown and black people are killing each other. When this happens in the suburbs, it\u2019s not seen as white-on-white crime.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/2017\/09\/27\/this-isnt-just-a-black-story-this-is-an-american-story\/\" class=\"button bg-green\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Javier Ortiz, director, cinematographer, and documentary photographer, recently spoke with Boston University School of Public Health (SPH) students and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[1352,1350,1351],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/12165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/12165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12171,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/12165\/revisions\/12171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=12165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}