{"id":59670,"date":"2015-05-07T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59670"},"modified":"2015-05-07T08:59:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:59:47","slug":"the-edward-sheppard-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59670","title":{"rendered":"The Edward Sheppard Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this is a thing this week &#8211; or maybe I&#8217;m a little behind. Eric Sheppard, a self-professed \u201cterrorist against white people\u201d challenges folks to stomp on a flag to express their displeasure with the white patriarchy, or something. But wait &#8211; the terrorist against white people is wanted on gun charges, so he didn&#8217;t stick around to see his &#8220;challenge&#8221; come to fruition. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/2066139\/eric-sheppard-challenge-stomping-on-american-flag-movement-goes-viral-veterans-outraged\/\">Inquisitr<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eric Sheppard disappeared from the Valdosta campus last week and is being sought by the police on the gun charge. Sheppard reportedly \u201cself-identifies\u201d as a \u201cterrorist against white people.\u201d College officials cancelled classes and ordered all non-essential staffers off campus in later April due to concerns that Sheppard, who was deemed \u201carmed and dangerous,\u201d would appear on the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat flag represents white supremacy racism which is plaguing the entire earth, so when we step on that flag we are stepping on racism, white supremacy,\u201d Sheppard, who is now believed to be in hiding, said in a now viral video. Sheppard also said that the American flag represents \u201cthings that were erected alongside our genocide and our holocaust.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last year it was the ALS Icebucket Challenge, this year it&#8217;s the &#8220;Do what the racist coward wants&#8221; Challenge.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WNEM.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=786721;hostDomain=www.wnem.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=385;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11448536;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnem.com\" title=\"WNEM TV 5 \">WNEM TV 5 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this is a thing this week &#8211; or maybe I&#8217;m a little behind. Eric &hellip; <a title=\"The Edward Sheppard Challenge\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59670\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Edward Sheppard Challenge<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}