{"id":571,"date":"2019-02-05T20:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/?p=571"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:52:14","slug":"annual-dr-rev-benjamin-mays-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/2019\/02\/05\/annual-dr-rev-benjamin-mays-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Dr. Rev. Benjamin Mays Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Rev. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays \u201920<br \/>\nAnnual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Debate<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-22-400x267.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-22-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-22-200x134.png 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-22.png 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This ever-popular contest between members of the debate teams of Morehouse and Bates Colleges honors Dr. Mays, a Bates debater, longtime president of Morehouse, pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement, and primary mentor to Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s motion: \u201cThis House believes that social justice movements should prioritize socioeconomic class over race and gender.\u201d Bates senior Harry Meadows and Morehouse junior Hatim Mansouri debated for Side Government, elaborating upon the benefits of having a primary focus on socioeconomic class. Bates senior Abby Westberry and Morehouse junior Zach Manuel debated for Side Opposition, proposing instead a primary focus on race and gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays \u201920 Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1125,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}