{"id":74831,"date":"2016-06-13T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=74831"},"modified":"2016-06-07T16:34:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:34:02","slug":"muhammad-alis-1966-antiwar-speech-the-real-enemy-of-my-people-is-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/06\/muhammad-alis-1966-antiwar-speech-the-real-enemy-of-my-people-is-right-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Ali&#8217;s 1966 Antiwar Speech: &#8220;The Real Enemy of My People Is Right Here&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jun 6, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Music legend John Legend reads Muhammad Ali\u2019s speech against the Vietnam War in 1966<em>. &#8220;Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam, while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?&#8221; <\/em>Ali said.<\/p>\n<p>John Legend\u2019s reading appears in the film &#8220;<em>The People Speak<\/em>,&#8221; which is based on Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove\u2019s &#8220;<em>Voices of a People\u2019s History of the United States<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gLBp1QCrcXI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 6, 2016 &#8211; Music legend John Legend reads Muhammad Ali\u2019s speech against the Vietnam War in 1966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}