{"id":4280,"date":"2007-03-13T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:55:42","slug":"jones-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/03\/13\/jones-civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones to address topic Betrayal: Sold Out by the Civil Rights Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Libertarian, entertainer and entrepreneur, Reginald Jones offers a talk titled Betrayal<em>: Sold Out by the Civil Rights Movement<\/em> at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, in Room 204, Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Bates College Republicans, the event is open to the public at no cost.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Jones&#8217; talk will focus on the struggle for civil rights and how the African-American community has been mistreated by public officials over the years,&#8221; said Michael O&#8217;Gorman, a Bates first-year student and second vice president of the Bates Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadvocates.org\/celebrities\/reginald-jones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jones<\/a> is a singer and hip-hop entrepreneur. As a young man in the South Bronx, Jones worked with rap artist Grand Master Flash, one of the pioneers of the hip hop movement. Jones parlayed that experience into a job at MCA\/Universal Records, and in 1990 formed his own entertainment company, The Reggitainment Group, which managed music acts.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, Jones made the leap to public speaking and politics when he joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.project21.org\/P21Index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project 21<\/a>, an African-American leadership group. In 1995, he got his first talk-radio job on WTTM in Trenton, New Jersey. Since then, he has hosted the <em>Grassroots Liv<\/em>&#8221; show on National Empowerment Television, spoken on dozens of college campuses and manned the microphone on the Radio America Network&#8217;s <em>Generation Now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones occasionally performs as a backup singer for George Clinton&#8217;s Parliament-Funkadelic, and volunteers for Afri-Male, a New Jersey mentoring group for young black males. Throughout all his endeavors, Jones has offered a simple message of empowerment for the black community: &#8220;Capitalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the word that I want to hear from now on,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Talk to me about free enterprise. Racism did not destroy our neighborhoods. Government did it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarian, entertainer and entrepreneur, Reginald Jones discusses the topic <em>Betrayal: Sold Out by the Civil Rights Movement<\/em> Wednesday, March 14, in Room 204, Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[39,195,224],"tags":[1372,2286,2289],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-news-politics","category-society-culture","tag-bates-college-republicans","tag-civil-rights","tag-civil-rights-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164303,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/164303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}