{"id":16876,"date":"2024-01-12T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/?p=16876"},"modified":"2024-01-12T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:53:20","slug":"mlk-day-protest-of-racist-sign-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/?p=16876","title":{"rendered":"MLK Day Protest of Racist Sign in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>A racist display of contempt for Native Americans has been poisoning the minds of motorists and pedestrians along Vine St. in Carthage for over 60 years. The time is long overdue for this longstanding highly degrading caricature of Native Americans, the \u201cBig Indian\u201d sign by Motor- Time Auto Sales, to permanently disappear, and protestors are determined to make that hap- pen.<\/p>\n<p>Over 340 people have already signed a petition, https:\/\/chng.it\/kzWDsvhxgY, to rid our com- munity of this offensive sign of hate. \u201cNative American people were victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing. We are seeing this first hand in Palestine right now. It is disgusting\u201d, states Damien Dallallo of Cincinnati, \u201cI am joining others in calling for the immediate removal of this degrading monument. Let\u2019s put Cincinnati on the map for the right reasons!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A protest against this public display of racism in our city will be held on MLK Day, January 15, beginning at 3pm at 7505 Vine in Carthage. Homer Shadowheart of Urban Native Collective, one of the sponsors of the protest, said \u201cIt is sad that in 2024 this sign is still able to exist, the indigenous population is forgotten, but we are not gone. If this were a Sambo it would have been removed decades ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Werner Lange of the Ohio Peace Council, initiator of the protest, states that \u201cfor the Queen City, the center of so much that celebrates the best in human creativity, to also continue to harbor this public insult to human dignity, is intolerable. The \u201cBig Indian\u201d sign must go.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A racist display of contempt for Native Americans has been poisoning the minds of motorists and pedestrians along Vine St. in Carthage for over 60 years. The time is long overdue for this longstanding highly degrading caricature of Native Americans, the \u201cBig Indian\u201d sign by Motor- Time Auto Sales, to permanently disappear, and protestors are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-ohio"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16878,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876\/revisions\/16878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}