{"id":7006,"date":"2009-02-28T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2009-03-01T23:54:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T04:54:54","slug":"was-a-woman-physically-removed-from-the-10th-annual-state-of-the-black-union-for-asking-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7006","title":{"rendered":"Was a woman physically removed from the 10th Annual State of the Black Union for asking a question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first few hours of Tavis Smiley&#8217;s 10th Annual State of the Black Union were carried <a href=\"http:\/\/c-span.org\">live by C-Span today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a question and answer spot following this morning&#8217;s presentation a woman was physically removed from the room after attempting to ask the panel a question.<\/p>\n<p>No explanation given why her actions were so threatening to elicit such a swift and forcible response.  Her ejection occurred without protest from the panelists or others attending the event.   <\/p>\n<p><em>Updated @2245 on 1 March 2009<\/em>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Watch\/watch.aspx?MediaId=HP-A-15942\">C-Span video available<\/a>.  Approximately 3:19:00 some movement in the audience precedes the camera turning towards a woman with papers in her hand being removed from the room.  Someone can be heard saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t push her.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first few hours of Tavis Smiley&#8217;s 10th Annual State of the Black Union were carried live by C-Span today. During a question and answer spot following this morning&#8217;s presentation a woman was physically removed from the room after attempting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1P0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7016,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}