{"id":121682,"date":"2019-01-25T12:21:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=121682"},"modified":"2019-01-25T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:47:47","slug":"video-behind-the-scenes-for-the-morehouse-bates-debate-on-mlk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/25\/video-behind-the-scenes-for-the-morehouse-bates-debate-on-mlk-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Behind the scenes for the Morehouse\u2013Bates debate on MLK Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everybody has disagreements,&#8221; says Morehouse College debater Hatim Mansori. &#8220;But what&#8217;s the best way for all of us to get along? The key thing is to have a conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The annual Rev. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, Class of 1920, Debate brings debaters from Bates and Morehouse together to honor a towering figure at both colleges, and in the nation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Scenes from the 2019 Benjamin Elijah Mays Debate as debaters from Bates and Morehouse share thoughts about coming together on MLK Day. Video by Theophil Syslo. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2019 Benjamin Mays Debate | Bates MLK Day\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4gV4C7xtVyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The debate itself isn&#8217;t a binary proposition. It&#8217;s not about winning and losing. It&#8217;s about giving the audience a sampler of the ideas and viewpoints that populate arguments on either side of important issues, all delivered with the highest spirit of civil discourse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to interrogate why you subscribe to those beliefs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the audience member, &#8220;sometimes it&#8217;s important just to sit and listen, to find a viewpoint that most represents you,&#8221; says Bates debater Abigail Westberry &#8217;19 of Readfield, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>That viewpoint might be &#8220;something different that you would&#8217;ve never considered. Or it&#8217;s a viewpoint you&#8217;ve always considered to be true. Either way, it&#8217;s important to interrogate why you subscribe to those beliefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s topic was &#8220;This House believes that social justice movements should prioritize socioeconomic class over race and gender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joining Mansori from Morehouse was fellow junior Zach Manuel. Westberry&#8217;s fellow Bates debater was Harry Meadow &#8217;19 of Princeton Junction, N.J. In the debate, Westberry and Manuel formed one team, Mansori and Meadow the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, Morehouse and Bates debaters team up on MLK Day to honor Benjamin Mays, whose enduring influence is felt by Bates, Morehouse, and the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":121694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[130,175,224,11009],"tags":[5709],"class_list":["post-121682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-justice-poverty","category-society-culture","category-the-college","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121682"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121717,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121682\/revisions\/121717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}