{"id":39240,"date":"2015-01-03T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39240"},"modified":"2015-01-03T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:23:08","slug":"our-real-policerace-problem-diverse-forces-white-resentment-and-americas-persistent-divides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39240","title":{"rendered":"Our real police\/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America\u2019s persistent divides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/01\/02\/our_real_policerace_problem_diverse_forces_white_resentment_and_americas_persistent_blackblue_divide\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Our real police\/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America\u2019s persistent divides<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jim Sleeper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Why diverse police forces can&#8217;t seem to trump the economics of racism, or the twisted politics of white resentment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nearly two decades before last month\u2019s murders of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu by a black man, the murder of a black NYPD officer, Charles Davis, anticipated claims we\u2019re hearing that police-community problems aren\u2019t really \u201cblack and white\u201d and the only color that really counts is blue.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the problems do remain \u201cblack and white\u201d for reasons of economic exploitation and isolation that run deeper than race itself and that are gathering force, <strong>despite rising numbers of white\/Asian and white\/Hispanic marriages and of multiracial children, even in the families of police officers themselves.<\/strong> Unless we can face the reasons why more \u201cdiversity\u201d in police ranks is a far-from-sufficient condition of justice, American society will remain more racist than many others, and thereby hangs my tale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/01\/02\/our_real_policerace_problem_diverse_forces_white_resentment_and_americas_persistent_blackblue_divide\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our real police\/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America\u2019s persistent divides Salon 2015-01-02 Jim Sleeper Why diverse police forces can&#8217;t seem to trump the economics of racism, or the twisted politics of white resentment Nearly two decades before last month\u2019s murders of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu by a black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14647,1467,8,26,394,20],"tags":[18971,18948,18937,10962],"class_list":["post-39240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-economics","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jim-sleeper","tag-new-york-city-police-department","tag-nypd","tag-salon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39240","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=39240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}