{"id":14142,"date":"2015-08-28T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14142"},"modified":"2015-08-28T07:34:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:34:32","slug":"from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-what-isnt-racism-in-moab-utahand-what-is-by-jim-stiles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-what-isnt-racism-in-moab-utahand-what-is-by-jim-stiles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the August\/September Zephyr) Take it or Leave it: What Isn\u2019t Racism in Moab, Utah\u2026and What Is?\u2026 By Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But\u2026for all the different forms of racism and bigotry that can still boil my blood, calling a canyon along the Colorado River \u201cNegro Bill\u201d just isn\u2019t one of them.\u00a0 Imagine if the same upper middle class white people who predominantly persist in making this argument channeled their energies in a more productive direction. Because there<i> is<\/i> racism in Grand County and Moab, but consuming time on a non-issue like this is not only a waste, it\u2019s counter-productive, and distracts everyone from real issues of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>First, just to review, we know that the canyon was named for a black man, William Grandstaff, who called himself and was referred to as \u201cNigger Bill.\u201d\u00a0 He was one of Moab\u2019s early settlers, arriving in the late 1870s; Bill is still considered one of southeast Utah\u2019s most interesting characters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/08\/02\/take-it-or-leave-it-what-isnt-racism-in-moab-utah-and-what-is\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cov-apr2000-e1438615887649.jpg\" alt=\"cov-apr2000\" width=\"400\" height=\"548\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/08\/02\/take-it-or-leave-it-what-isnt-racism-in-moab-utah-and-what-is\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/08\/02\/take-it-or-leave-it-what-isnt-racism-in-moab-utah-and-what-is\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: But\u2026for all the different forms of racism and bigotry that can still boil my blood, calling a canyon along the Colorado River \u201cNegro Bill\u201d just isn\u2019t one of them.\u00a0 Imagine if the same upper middle class white people who predominantly persist in making this argument channeled their energies in a more productive direction. Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14143,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}