{"id":54855,"date":"2017-08-26T23:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54855"},"modified":"2017-08-26T23:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T23:00:59","slug":"two-lessons-in-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54855","title":{"rendered":"Two Lessons in Prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Lessons in Prejudice<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2017-08-26<\/p>\n

Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What I know of rural white America mostly begins and ends with the three times I went at the age of 8 to visit a friend\u2019s farm in Butler County, Pa.<\/a>, about an hour north of Pittsburgh<\/a>, where I grew up. I recall vast farmland, ample sunshine and no black people \u2014 or Hispanics or Jews, or for that matter, half-Iranian, half-Jewish people like me. There was, however, my friend\u2019s father, who found it amusing to make fun of my name over dinner, coming up with a wide variety of ways to mispronounce it each time. I did my best to politely correct him each time, until it finally became apparent to me that I was participating in a game in which there was no chance of winning, and I ran from the table and out of the house and cried among the farmland.<\/p>\n

It is, of course, unfair to judge an entire county with a population of almost 200,000 on the behavior of one man 40 years ago, but I hope you can understand my disbelief when on a dark night last November, I watched on television as Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign <\/a>tried to assure her supporters that little Butler County was going to come through for her in the 11th hour and overtake Donald Trump\u2019s <\/a>lead in Pennsylvania<\/a>, and by extension the Electoral College<\/a>. Now<\/em>, I thought, is as good a time as any to turn off the television and go bury my head under the pillow<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I know of rural white America mostly begins and ends with the three times I went at the age of 8 to visit a friend\u2019s farm in Butler County, Pa., about an hour north of Pittsburgh, where I grew up. I recall vast farmland, ample sunshine and no black people \u2014 or Hispanics or Jews, or for that matter, half-Iranian, half-Jewish people like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23674,20],"tags":[2640,4889,27479,2327],"class_list":["post-54855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-new-york-times","tag-pennsylvania","tag-said-sayrafiezadeh","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855","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=54855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54856,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855\/revisions\/54856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}