{"id":38736,"date":"2014-12-05T21:35:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38736"},"modified":"2014-12-05T21:35:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:35:59","slug":"racial-divisions-still-require-full-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38736","title":{"rendered":"Racial divisions still require full attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnj.com\/story\/opinion\/editorials\/2014\/11\/29\/racial-divisions-still-require-full-attention\/19669749\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Racial divisions still require full attention<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnj.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily News Journal<\/a><br \/>\nMurfreesboro, Tennessee<br \/>\n2014-12-01<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editorial Board<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harpers Ferry\u2026Montgomery\u2026Little Rock\u2026Birmingham\u2026Selma\u2026Ferguson\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Despite some optimism that the United States had evolved into a &#8220;post-racial&#8221; era, particularly with the election of a black president, events in Ferguson, Missouri, continue to reinforce the reality of a racial divide in this country.<\/p>\n<p>While the initial focus of demonstrations in Ferguson was a white police office&#8217;s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, what is at issue now appears to be the entire scope of racial divisions in this country since its founding.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of a St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown has shown further the racial divisions in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnj.com\/story\/opinion\/editorials\/2014\/11\/29\/racial-divisions-still-require-full-attention\/19669749\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial divisions still require full attention The Daily News Journal Murfreesboro, Tennessee 2014-12-01 Editorial Board Harpers Ferry\u2026Montgomery\u2026Little Rock\u2026Birmingham\u2026Selma\u2026Ferguson\u2026 Despite some optimism that the United States had evolved into a &#8220;post-racial&#8221; era, particularly with the election of a black president, events in Ferguson, Missouri, continue to reinforce the reality of a racial divide in this country. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,394,20],"tags":[18631,18630],"class_list":["post-38736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-daily-news-journal","tag-the-daily-news-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38736","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=38736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}