{"id":3397,"date":"2008-05-02T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2008-05-02T08:16:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:16:03","slug":"but_everyone_knows_white_people_cant_jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/but_everyone_knows_white_people_cant_jump.html","title":{"rendered":"But Everyone Knows White People Can&#8217;t Jump . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2008\/05\/02\/2008-05-02_brooklyn_elementary_school_hit_with_jump.html\">I don&#8217;t get it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Disturbing, gang-like graffiti is cropping up all over a Brooklyn elementary school, marring a playground, classrooms and two teachers&#8217; cars, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The troubling words &#8220;Jump White People&#8221; and abbreviation &#8220;JWP&#8221; have appeared at Public School 224 in East New York about a dozen times in the past three weeks, and some teachers are concerned that it&#8217;s not being taken seriously. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just quietly gets erased,&#8221; one teacher said. &#8220;Nothing gets done.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The words were also scrawled in marker on a Snapple machine, desks and several walls, prompting four students ranging in age from 8 to 11 to be disciplined, cops said. <\/p>\n<p>But the graffiti has continued to surface since the in-school suspensions. As recently as Wednesday, a staff member found JWP in a closet, a source said. <\/p>\n<p>And teachers worry that the markings are not just a prank, but instead show that the kids are mimicking gang culture at a young age.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get it: Disturbing, gang-like graffiti is cropping up all over a Brooklyn elementary school, marring a playground, classrooms and two teachers&#8217; cars, authorities said. The troubling words &#8220;Jump White People&#8221; and abbreviation &#8220;JWP&#8221; have appeared at Public School 224 in East New York about a dozen times in the past three weeks, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}