{"id":9653,"date":"2016-02-12T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2016-02-12T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:12:39","slug":"bernie-sanders-race-activism-earned-him-university-of-chicago-censure-bad-grades-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/bernie-sanders-race-activism-earned-him-university-of-chicago-censure-bad-grades-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders&#8217; race activism earned him University of Chicago censure, bad grades &#038; arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9654\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/berniearrest-Chicago-Trib.jpg\" alt=\"bernie arrest\" width=\"300\" height=\"435\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/berniearrest-Chicago-Trib.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/berniearrest-Chicago-Trib-155x225.jpg 155w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/berniearrest-Chicago-Trib-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Chicago Tribune<\/figcaption><\/figure>This is fun. Details about Bernie Sanders years as an activist in college, who was invited by a University of Chicago dean to take some time off from studies because his grades suffered from the intense anti-racism activism activities he engaged in. <\/p>\n<p>Bernie began his fight against racism with a housing equity battle in 1961: a group of students learned that the university did not rent off-campus apartments it owned to black students and formed a coalition to change that, which Bernie Sanders helped lead. A couple of years later, in 1963, Sanders was arrested for protesting segregation at a Chicago South Side school. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2016\/02\/bernie-sanders-core-university-chicago\">Mother Jones has the rest of the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fun. Details about Bernie Sanders years as an activist in college, who was invited by a University of Chicago dean to take some time off from studies because his grades suffered from the intense anti-racism activism activities he engaged in. Bernie began his fight against racism with a housing equity battle in 1961: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/bernie-sanders-race-activism-earned-him-university-of-chicago-censure-bad-grades-arrest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bernie Sanders&#8217; race activism earned him University of Chicago censure, bad grades &#038; arrest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[979,1,1082,563],"tags":[2304,2303,1831,1088],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-all","category-dei","category-justice","tag-activism","tag-anti-racism","tag-bernie","tag-student"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9658,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions\/9658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}