{"id":107547,"date":"2019-08-26T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/26\/belgian-anti-racism-activist-forced-to-flee-town-in-blackface-row\/"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:35:54","slug":"belgian-anti-racism-activist-forced-to-flee-town-in-blackface-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=107547","title":{"rendered":"Belgian anti-racism activist forced to flee town in blackface row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folkloric festival urged to ditch practice of parading a chained white man in black faceAn anti-racism activist has said he was forced to leave the Belgian town of Ath on Sunday after a row with local authorities about a folkloric festival.A carnival float featuring a white man in black face called \u201cthe savage\u201d featured on Sunday as part of Ath\u2019s annual festival, despite calls to abandon the practice that campaigners say is an act of \u201csymbolic violence\u201d towards black people in Belgium. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/26\/belgian-anti-racism-activist-forced-to-flee-town-in-blackface-row\" target=\"_blank\">Belgian anti-racism activist forced to flee town in blackface row<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folkloric festival urged to ditch practice of parading a chained white man in black faceAn anti-racism activist has said he was forced to leave the Belgian town of Ath on Sunday after a row with local authorities about a folkloric festival.A carnival float featuring a white man in black face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}