{"id":9905,"date":"2011-09-15T15:22:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2011-09-15T13:27:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:27:26","slug":"kelis-called-a-%e2%80%9cslave%e2%80%9d-at-uk-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9905","title":{"rendered":"Kelis Called A \u201cSlave\u201d At UK Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer <strong>Kelis<\/strong> took to Twitter just minutes ago to air out her thoughts on being called a slave at a UK airport. <strong>Kelis<\/strong> was at a UK airport with her son when a\u00a0 complete stranger called her a \u2018slave\u2018 and \u2019disgusting Nigerian\u2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelis<\/strong> revealed:<br \/>\nOver 50 people said nothing. I mean literally nothing. Didn\u2019t flinch. We all no I\u2019m no saint, so I retaliated. Not the way I wanted to, or how that pig deserved.<br \/>\nBut #1 my gorgeous baby boy was literally sitting on my hip and #2 I\u2019m a believer. And we are better. Suposed to be anyway. It made me think. This person was aprox a 50 year old English man.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to explain:<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t say anything at the time of the riots in London for a lot of reasons. But I am in london all the time and today I\u2019m gonna say that the racial issues in the uk are disgusting. Decades behind progression because everything is swept under the rug. People don\u2019t talk about it. People don\u2019t fight about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Kelis took to Twitter just minutes ago to air out her thoughts on being called a slave at a UK airport. Kelis was at a UK airport with her son when a\u00a0 complete stranger called her a \u2018slave\u2018 and \u2019disgusting Nigerian\u2018. Kelis revealed: Over 50 people said nothing. I mean literally nothing. Didn\u2019t flinch. [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905","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=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}