{"id":23673,"date":"2019-08-25T17:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T22:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=23673"},"modified":"2019-08-25T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T22:02:31","slug":"jevin-lamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/jevin-lamar\/","title":{"rendered":"Jevin Lamar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCg3dMpxMEE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Best-Selling Author\/Director Greg Palast Music Producer\u2019s Cousin Murdered in Dayton Massacre  While on his Honeymoon in Switzerland With  Producer in Attendance<br \/>\nBy Greg Palast<br \/>\nJevin Lamar interview on the Young Turks: <\/p>\n<p><iframe  id=\"_ytid_72018\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zkbGq9gCZQc?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nImageThomas James \u201cTee Jay\u201d McNichols Jr., 25, the cousin of our music producer Jevin Lamar, was one of the 9 people murdered Saturday in Dayton, Ohio, by a racist gunman.<\/p>\n<p>Our hearts go out to Tee Jay\u2019s family and our Jevin.<\/p>\n<p>Jevin is here in the Swiss Alps with me and Leni Badpenny \u2014 he was ring-bearer at our wedding this week at her family\u2019s chapel on Monte Laura.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few hours ago, Jevin was celebrating his 25th birthday and the release of his three new hip-hop tracks for Badpenny Records. <\/p>\n<p>We received the horrific call from Dayton while I was on the air on Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s radio program discussing the Dayton massacre.<\/p>\n<p>ImageJevin was very close to Tee Jay as a kid: \u201cWe played kickball all the time.\u201d Jevin told me his family went to the club in the Oregon district because it was considered the safest place in Dayton.<\/p>\n<p>But no place is safe from a Neo-Nazi with an assault rifle and a President who gives a wink and a nod to white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTee Jay was the oldest after his brother was shot, so he took care of his mom and sisters and brothers. His mom just died, young. It seems that none of us are allowed to live a long life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jevin organized the ground operation for the Dayton scenes in our film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, in which we showed the desperate economic conditions of a city destroyed by finance vultures. And Jevin located the victims of Ohio\u2019s systematically racist voter purges.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t have a racist voting system and a racist economic system without inciting racist violence.<\/p>\n<p>What Trump and a thousand other politicians have done so well is to distract hopeless, young white men by making Black people the targets of their rage \u2014 instead of the white wealthy monsters who stole the future of Dayton and America\u2019s other dead-end Daytons.<\/p>\n<p>Jevin is also distantly related to Lola Oglesby, a new mom, gunned down in the Dayton massacre<\/p>\n<p>Eight years ago, in Vultures\u2019 Picnic, I fantasized about marrying Badpenny here in the Alps. But even in my daydreams, the shadows of my investigations intrude:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible for me to forget that deep underneath all our wedding cakes, BP still pumps satanic chemicals into the aquifers; a donkey-headed blogger is going mad in Baba\u2019s jail cell; the VLCC Raven, loaded by industrial vampires sucking at Mama Nature, still plies Arctic waters. And Chief Criollo\u2019s son won\u2019t ever come back..<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and damaged Dayton, neo-Nazis and a President who blesses them is calling me to return from my personal fairy-tale.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a sad way to return to America. In fact, we wouldn\u2019t \u2014 if there wasn\u2019t so much work to do.<\/p>\n<p>Again, our condolences to Tee Jay\u2019s family, especially our Jevin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best-Selling Author\/Director Greg Palast Music Producer\u2019s Cousin Murdered in Dayton Massacre While on his Honeymoon in Switzerland With Producer in Attendance By Greg Palast Jevin Lamar interview on the Young Turks: ImageThomas James \u201cTee Jay\u201d McNichols Jr., 25, the cousin of our music producer Jevin Lamar, was one of the 9 people murdered Saturday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jae"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23676,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673\/revisions\/23676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}