{"id":10342,"date":"2020-12-15T22:51:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:36:32","slug":"professor-william-green-featured-in-star-tribune-column-about-facing-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/15\/professor-william-green-featured-in-star-tribune-column-about-facing-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor William Green Featured in Star Tribune Column About Facing Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10343\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/01\/merlin_736595.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/01\/merlin_736595-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"William Green\" width=\"259\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/01\/merlin_736595-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/01\/merlin_736595-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/01\/merlin_736595-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/01\/merlin_736595.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article-headline-column\">How can Minnesotans face the truth about racism, past and present?\u00a0 Columnist Myron Medcalf explored that subject recently in the Star Tribune and interviewed\u00a0Augsburg History Professor William Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-headline-column\">Green said reading a wide range of material about Black history is the key to knowing the steps that have led to this critical moment.\u00a0 Many Minnesotans were surprised that George Floyd could happen here in part because so many hadn\u2019t grappled with the state\u2019s true history of race relations. &#8220;Some people throw their hands up and say, &#8216;What am I supposed to do?&#8217;\u2009&#8221; Green said. &#8220;The conclusion is they do nothing. But that&#8217;s not the solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/how-can-minnesotans-face-the-truth-about-racism-past-and-present-start-with-a-book\/573378821\/?refresh=true&amp;fbclid=IwAR0f1g7PFPzErS3uboJsKcXOfMntdlPcv0binFxMS5P2gfIbK6q7asFCSBk\">Read the full article at the Star Tribune website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can Minnesotans face the truth about racism, past and present?\u00a0 Columnist Myron Medcalf explored that subject recently in the Star Tribune and interviewed\u00a0Augsburg History Professor William Green. Green said reading a wide range of material about Black history is the key to knowing the steps that have led to this critical moment.\u00a0 Many Minnesotans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10352,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/10352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}