{"id":16599,"date":"2012-09-06T15:06:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16599"},"modified":"2012-09-06T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:06:49","slug":"msnbcs-harris-perry-erupts-on-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16599","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC\u2019s  Harris-Perry Erupts On Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor <strong>Melissa Harris-Perry<\/strong> is usually known for her cool, calm and collected demeanor; even her passionate examination of the Black community is always measured and academic.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably why <strong>Monica Mehta<\/strong>,\u00a0 a guest on MSNBC\u2019s \u201c<em>The Melissa Harris-Perry Show,\u201d<\/em> thought she could voice a generic opinion on the private and business sector, in the context of risk-taking, without getting called out for its narrow scope.<\/p>\n<p>She thought wrong.<\/p>\n<p>After <strong>Mehta<\/strong> stated that entrepreneurship involves a level of risk, presumably not undertaken by those in living in poverty, <strong>Harris-Perry<\/strong> went in:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is riskier than living poor in America? Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won\u2019t. I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Melissa Harris-Perry is usually known for her cool, calm and collected demeanor; even her passionate examination of the Black community is always measured and academic. This is probably why Monica Mehta,\u00a0 a guest on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Melissa Harris-Perry Show,\u201d thought she could voice a generic opinion on the private and business sector, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}