{"id":698,"date":"2009-05-16T13:28:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T17:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=698"},"modified":"2010-08-30T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:43:40","slug":"a-saturday-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2009\/05\/16\/a-saturday-aside\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saturday Aside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/shots.snap.com\/\/client\/inject.js?site_name=0\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>Commencement &#8211; we go onward!  The time for sermons full of advice, caution, counsel, inspiration, and if we are lucky, we&#8217;ll receive a little incitement and good thinking points beyond knowing how much of a mess we&#8217;re in and that we can fix it.  An brief aside from <a title=\"Commencement 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/commencement\/2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commencement affairs<\/a> to share a little Saturday afternoon incitement.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Smooth is one of my favorite people on the Web.  I like his posts &#8212; lyrical, quick, witty, current, often-hip, with plenty to consider.  In this recent post, Jay Smooth&#8217;s commentary about Asher Roth starts a conversation on race in today&#8217;s America. (Check out his style and the questions he asks about us living in Obama&#8217;s America.)<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IpK0Ad8hD0I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IpK0Ad8hD0I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Useful exhortation? Is Jay Smooth on point? Does he have a prescription for how to handle these slights? Can Jay Smooth&#8217;s analysis help us to be more aware and more confident when we talk about race? Insightful? Forward-looking? Nonsense? Too pop?<\/p>\n<p>Back to Commencement &#8212; here&#8217;s to the Class of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.  <script src=\"http:\/\/shots.snap.com\/\/client\/inject.js?site_name=0\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/shots.snap.com\/\/client\/inject.js?site_name=0\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/shots.snap.com\/\/client\/inject.js?site_name=0\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/shots.snap.com\/\/client\/inject.js?site_name=0\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commencement &#8211; we go onward! The time for sermons full of advice, caution, counsel, inspiration, and if we are lucky, we&#8217;ll receive a little incitement and good thinking points beyond knowing how much of a mess we&#8217;re in and that we can fix it. An brief aside from Commencement affairs to share a little Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}