{"id":265,"date":"2004-10-17T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T22:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2004-10-17T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2004-10-17T22:20:38","slug":"cmon-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/17\/cmon-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"C’mon guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m listening to a story about Ousmane Sembène<\/a>, and his new film coming out this weekend called Moolaadé<\/i> on NPR<\/a> and they’re doing two things that really bother me:<\/p>\n

– First, they keep called him sem-BANE, and not sem-BEN. Argh.<\/p>\n

– Second, they perpetuate the stereotype of “African” issues — he’s referred to as an “African” director, and talks about the reactions of “African” people, and not once during the interview do they mention that he’s from Senegal. C’mon guys, get a clue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m listening to a story about Ousmane Sembène, and his new film coming out this weekend called Moolaadé on NPR and they’re doing two things that really bother me: – First, they keep called him sem-BANE, and not sem-BEN. Argh. – Second, they perpetuate the stereotype of “African” issues — he’s referred to as an “African” director, and talks about the reactions of “African” people, and not once during the interview do they mention that he’s from Senegal. C’mon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-media","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-4h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}