{"id":571,"date":"2019-02-05T20:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/?p=571"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:52:14","slug":"annual-dr-rev-benjamin-mays-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/2019\/02\/05\/annual-dr-rev-benjamin-mays-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Dr. Rev. Benjamin Mays Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Rev. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays \u201920<br \/>\nAnnual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Debate<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-22-400x267.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-22-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-22-200x134.png 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-22.png 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This ever-popular contest between members of the debate teams of Morehouse and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Colleges honors Dr. Mays, a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ debater, longtime president of Morehouse, pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement, and primary mentor to Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s motion: \u201cThis House believes that social justice movements should prioritize socioeconomic class over race and gender.\u201d ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ senior Harry Meadows and Morehouse junior Hatim Mansouri debated for Side Government, elaborating upon the benefits of having a primary focus on socioeconomic class. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ senior Abby Westberry and Morehouse junior Zach Manuel debated for Side Opposition, proposing instead a primary focus on race and gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays \u201920 Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1125,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"closed","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,"bates_author_byline_override":"BQDC","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}