{"id":30423,"date":"2020-09-13T17:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30423"},"modified":"2020-09-13T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:31:30","slug":"white-has-his-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30423","title":{"rendered":"White Has His Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/counties\/chatham-county\/article244891262.html\">As one Black Lives Matter<\/a> billboard is coming down in Pittsboro, another is going up in Raleigh, says a social-justice advocate involved in both projects.<\/p>\n<p>Kerwin Pittman, founder of the nonprofit Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services Inc. (RREPS), said he\u2019s not surprised the Pittsboro billboard erected last month next to a Confederate flag on U.S. 64 Business didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n<p>The contract with Lamar Advertising Co. was supposed to be for a full year, until next July, but Sam White, the owner of the Confederate flag, didn\u2019t want the black billboard with the white letters spelling \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d on his land.<\/p>\n<p>White is ending his land lease with billboard owner Lamar Advertising after almost 16 years. The lease expires Aug. 31, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them the 31st of August that sign better be gone, because Sept. 1, if that sign\u2019s not down, they\u2019re going to hear my chainsaw running,\u201d White said in an interview with The News & Observer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fuck Sam White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one Black Lives Matter billboard is coming down in Pittsboro, another is going up in Raleigh, says a social-justice advocate involved in both projects. Kerwin Pittman, founder of the nonprofit Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services Inc. (RREPS), said he\u2019s not surprised the Pittsboro billboard erected last month next to a Confederate flag on U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30424,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423\/revisions\/30424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}