{"id":25981,"date":"2012-10-14T16:52:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T16:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25981"},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:26:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:26:25","slug":"scot-nakagawa-dismantling-the-fulcrum-of-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25981","title":{"rendered":"Scot Nakagawa: Dismantling the Fulcrum of White Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=UHE7MykBL3w\" target=\"_blank\">Scot Nakagawa: Dismantling the Fulcrum of White Supremacy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grittv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GRITtv<\/a><br \/>\n2012-08-24<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauraflanders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Flanders<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changelabinfo.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scot Nakagawa<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Parner<br \/>\n<em>ChangeLab<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Race, according to activist and writer Scot Nakagawa, <strong>was an idea created originally to justify the enslavement of a people<\/strong>, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/racefiles.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/05\/the-durability-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">displayed pernicious staying power in the centuries since<\/a>. That&#8217;s why, as Nakagawa explains in this video with Laura Flanders, he believes that his liberation and the liberation of all people of color in the United States is tied to the liberation of African-Americans. For Nakagawa, anti-black racism is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/racefiles.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/04\/blackness-is-the-fulcrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">the fulcrum of white supremacy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UHE7MykBL3w?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UHE7MykBL3w?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scot Nakagawa: Dismantling the Fulcrum of White Supremacy GRITtv 2012-08-24 Laura Flanders, Host Scot Nakagawa, Senior Parner ChangeLab Race, according to activist and writer Scot Nakagawa, was an idea created originally to justify the enslavement of a people, and has displayed pernicious staying power in the centuries since. That&#8217;s why, as Nakagawa explains in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23674,394,20,842],"tags":[12744,12478,12479,12742,10674],"class_list":["post-25981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-changelab","tag-grittv","tag-laura-flanders","tag-racefiles","tag-scot-nakagawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42030,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25981\/revisions\/42030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}