{"id":1393,"date":"2010-05-06T02:09:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T09:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2010-05-06T02:09:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T09:09:51","slug":"viva-los-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/viva-los-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva Los Suns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m not even a basketball fan, but\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lossuns.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"lossuns\" border=\"0\" alt=\"lossuns\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lossuns_thumb.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a> Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver, a harsh critic of a new Arizona immigration law, will have his team wear a Latino-supporting &quot;Los Suns&quot; version of its jersey in the NBA playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Sarver said Tuesday that the Suns will wear the jerseys, used twice in regular season games that Phoenix won both times, during Wednesday&#8217;s second game of the Suns&#8217; NBA second-round series against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns, who won the opener 111-102 on Monday, will make the move on Cinco de Mayo, a popular Latino holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Sarver said the jerseys will &quot;honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He joined critics of the state&#8217;s new immigration law, which Latino groups and civil rights organizations fear could lead to racial profiling of Hispanics, a law US President Barack Obama has called &quot;misguided.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;However intended, the result of passing the law is that our basic principles of equal rights and protection under the law are being called into question and Arizona&#8217;s already struggling economy will suffer even further setbacks at a time when the state can ill-afford them,&quot; Sarver said\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/05\/05-3\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What can we say to Sarver and the Suns for standing up against this injustice?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank you!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not even a basketball fan, but\u2026 Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver, a harsh critic of a new Arizona immigration law, will have his team wear a Latino-supporting &quot;Los Suns&quot; version of its jersey in the NBA playoffs. Sarver said Tuesday that the Suns will wear the jerseys, used twice in regular season games that <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/viva-los-suns\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}