{"id":35769,"date":"2014-02-11T17:35:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35769"},"modified":"2014-06-08T23:46:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T23:46:53","slug":"for-me-as-a-young-lieutenant-who-couldnt-go-off-the-post-in-columbus-georgia-could-go-off-the-post-anywhere-in-germany-it-was-a-breath-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35769","title":{"rendered":"For me as a young lieutenant, who couldn\u2019t go off the post in Columbus, Georgia, could go off the post anywhere in Germany. It was a breath of freedom."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen I first went to Germany in January, 1959, I just finished my training in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbus,_Georgia\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus, Georgia<\/a>, at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Benning\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Benning<\/a>. In Columbus, Georgia it was still\u00a0segregated. There was discrimination. There was racism. For me as a young\u00a0lieutenant, who couldn\u2019t go off the post in Columbus, Georgia, could go off the post <em>anywhere<\/em> in Germany. It was a breath of freedom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Powell\">Colin Powell<\/a>, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former United States Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=35707\" target=\"_blank\">Breath of Freedom<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<em>The Smithsonian Channel<\/em>, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianchannel.com\/sc\/web\/show\/3402153\/breath-of-freedom\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.smithsonianchannel.com\/sc\/web\/show\/3402153\/breath-of-freedom<\/a>. (00:02:58-00:02:24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I first went to Germany in January, 1959, I just finished my training in Columbus, Georgia, at Fort Benning. In Columbus, Georgia it was still\u00a0segregated. There was discrimination. There was racism. For me as a young\u00a0lieutenant, who couldn\u2019t go off the post in Columbus, Georgia, could go off the post anywhere in Germany. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5048,16883,16882],"class_list":["post-35769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-colin-powell","tag-smithsonian-channel","tag-the-smithsonian-channel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}