{"id":206169,"date":"2012-08-12T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T22:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=206169"},"modified":"2012-08-13T15:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:56:55","slug":"naacp-calls-for-work-to-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=206169","title":{"rendered":"NAACP Calls for Work to Make a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=206170\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-206170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/NAACP-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"NAACP\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-206170\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The NAACP&#8217;s Texas Conference president encourages East Texans to work at making a difference in their communities. Gary Bledsoe spoke Saturday night at the Tyler NAACP&#8217;s 66th annual Freedom Fund Banquet, at Marvin United Methodist Church. Bledsoe says too many people want to roll back the gains made towards greater equality in America over the years. He says part of the answer is to register to vote &#8212; and then follow through on election day. Bledsoe also advised looking around and seeing which community leaders can be recruited as allies. Addressing the ongoing challenge of apathy, Bledsoe remarked that there are many good people of all races in any community &#8212; &#8220;but too many good people sit by and let the bad people do their dirty work.&#8221; Bledsoe, an Austin attorney, has held his current NAACP position since 1991<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The NAACP&#8217;s Texas Conference president encourages East Texans to work at making a difference in their communities. Gary Bledsoe spoke Saturday night at the Tyler NAACP&#8217;s 66th annual Freedom Fund Banquet, at Marvin United Methodist Church. Bledsoe says too many people want to roll back the gains made towards greater equality in America &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=206169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NAACP Calls for Work to Make a Difference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 07:14:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206346,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206169\/revisions\/206346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}