{"id":37153,"date":"2014-08-26T02:12:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37153"},"modified":"2014-08-26T02:12:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T02:12:47","slug":"how-ferguson-could-be-americas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37153","title":{"rendered":"How Ferguson could be America&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/08\/23\/us\/ferguson-blake\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How Ferguson could be America&#8217;s future<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cable News Network<\/a> (CNN)<br \/>\n2014-08-23<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Blake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(CNN) &#8212; The protests in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ferguson,_Missouri\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson, Missouri<\/a>, have been described as a mirror into contemporary America, but they are also something else: A crystal ball.<\/p>\n<p>Look past the headlines &#8212; the debates over race and police militarization that have surfaced after the killing of an unarmed black youth by a white police officer &#8212; and one can glimpse America&#8217;s future, some historians and political scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>No one is talking about an impending race war or a police state, but something more subtle. Unless Americans re-examine some assumptions they&#8217;ve made about themselves, they argue, Ferguson could be the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assumption No. 1: Tiger Woods is going to save us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the &#8220;browning of America.&#8221; Google the phrase and you&#8217;ll get 18 million hits. By 2050, most of the nation&#8217;s citizens are expected to be people of color, according to the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n<p>Dig beneath the Google links and one can detect an emerging assumption: Racial flashpoints like Ferguson will fade in the future because no single race will be dominant. You could call it the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiger_Woods\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> effect. The New American will claim multiple racial origins like Woods, the pro golfer. Demographic change will accomplish what a thousand national conversations on race could never do: lessen the sting of racial conflict.<\/p>\n<p>A dramatic increase in interracial marriages will change the racial landscape as more people cross racial and ethnic lines to marry. But that change won&#8217;t be a cure-all, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.villanova.edu\/villanova\/artsci\/sociology\/facstaff\/biodetail.html?mail=rory.kramer@villanova.edu&amp;xsl=bio_long\" target=\"_blank\">Rory Kramer<\/a>, a sociology and criminology professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He says racial progress is not inevitable with the browning of America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to deny the optimism,&#8221; Kramer says. &#8220;I deny the assumption that it will happen without effort.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/08\/23\/us\/ferguson-blake\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Ferguson could be America&#8217;s future Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-08-23 John Blake (CNN) &#8212; The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have been described as a mirror into contemporary America, but they are also something else: A crystal ball. Look past the headlines &#8212; the debates over race and police militarization that have surfaced after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,394,20],"tags":[9447,3142,17765,3143,773,3122,17801,3053],"class_list":["post-37153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-cable-news-network","tag-cnn","tag-ferguson","tag-john-blake","tag-missouri","tag-pew-research-center","tag-robert-putnam","tag-rory-kramer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37153","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=37153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}