{"id":42679,"date":"2015-09-13T02:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T02:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42679"},"modified":"2015-09-24T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T13:32:49","slug":"james-blake-and-the-myth-of-an-unarrestable-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42679","title":{"rendered":"James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/09\/10\/james-blake-and-the-myth-of-an-unarrestable-black-man.html\" target=\"_blank\">James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTomasRios\" target=\"_blank\">Tom\u00e1s R\u00edos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Bratton\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Bratton<\/a> said race \u2018had nothing at all to do\u2019 with tennis star <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Blake_(tennis)\" target=\"_blank\">James Blake\u2019s<\/a> wrongful collaring and arrest. The numbers tell a different story.<\/p>\n<p>What does a non-white person have to do for the police to leave them alone? The ready answer is that you have to be more famous than former tennis star James Blake.<\/p>\n<p>Blake was leaving his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midtown_Manhattan\" target=\"_blank\">Midtown Manhattan<\/a> hotel to make corporate appearances at the U.S. Open when five white, plainclothes New York City police officers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/09\/08\/racism-vs-whites-you-re-kidding-me.html\" target=\"_blank\">tackled and handcuffed him on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The real answer, of course, is that not being white means there is no escape from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/09\/04\/life-sentence-for-pot-only-if-you-re-black.html\" target=\"_blank\">consequences of not being white<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who buy into the mythic moral righteousness of our police forces, there is a belief that people of color need only be perfect little humans to cancel out the realities of a racist society. Go to college, smile, pull up your pants, don\u2019t smile at white women, and the prescription for transcending race goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>It seems not even James Blake\u2014who attended Harvard, overcame <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scoliosis\" target=\"_blank\">scoliosis<\/a> and a broken neck to become a world-class tennis player, and is now a cancer research philanthropist\u2014can be that perfect. The numbers on incarceration make that much clear&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/09\/10\/james-blake-and-the-myth-of-an-unarrestable-black-man.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man The Daily Beast 2015-09-10 Tom\u00e1s R\u00edos Bill Bratton said race \u2018had nothing at all to do\u2019 with tennis star James Blake\u2019s wrongful collaring and arrest. The numbers tell a different story. What does a non-white person have to do for the police to leave them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20],"tags":[21036,13385,21014,2711,596,7222,21018,13384,21037,21021,21019],"class_list":["post-42679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bill-bratton","tag-daily-beast","tag-james-blake","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-the-daily-beast","tag-tomas-rios","tag-william-bratton","tag-william-j-bratton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42679","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=42679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42680,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42679\/revisions\/42680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}