{"id":36863,"date":"2014-07-24T06:33:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T06:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36863"},"modified":"2014-07-24T06:33:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T06:33:05","slug":"attorney-general-holder-is-right-racial-animus-plays-role-in-obama-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36863","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Holder is right: Racial animus plays role in Obama opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/news\/attorney-general-holder-is-right-racial-animus-plays-role-in-obama-opposition\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Attorney General Holder is right: Racial animus plays role in Obama opposition<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a><br \/>\n2014-07-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/who-we-are\/leadership\/morris-dees\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Morris Dees<\/strong><\/a>, Founder, Chief Trial Attorney<\/p>\n<p>Right-wing pundits are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/14\/politics\/holder-race\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\" target=\"_blank\">jumping all over<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Holder\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney General Eric Holder<\/a> for daring to suggest on Sunday that \u201cracial animus\u201d plays a role in the \u201clevel of vehemence\u201d that\u2019s been directed at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a>. They\u2019re denouncing him for \u201cplaying the race card\u201d and \u201cstoking racial divisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who do they think they\u2019re fooling?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And, we\u2019ve seen an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/news\/splc-report-far-right-extremist-groups-decline-but-remain-at-near-record-levels\" target=\"_blank\">explosive growth of radical-right groups, including armed militias<\/a>, since Obama was elected, and repeated threats that violence is needed to \u201ctake our country back\u201d from the \u201ctyranny\u201d of Obama. This is part of a backlash to the growing diversity in our country, as symbolized by the presence of a black man in the White House&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/news\/attorney-general-holder-is-right-racial-animus-plays-role-in-obama-opposition\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Holder is right: Racial animus plays role in Obama opposition Southern Poverty Law Center 2014-07-16 Morris Dees, Founder, Chief Trial Attorney Right-wing pundits are jumping all over Attorney General Eric Holder for daring to suggest on Sunday that \u201cracial animus\u201d plays a role in the \u201clevel of vehemence\u201d that\u2019s been directed at President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[11617,17613,7933,17614],"class_list":["post-36863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-eric-holder","tag-morris-dees","tag-southern-poverty-law-center","tag-splc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863","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=36863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}