{"id":60067,"date":"2020-08-25T23:41:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60067"},"modified":"2020-08-25T23:41:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:41:39","slug":"an-rnc-speaker-said-cops-would-be-smart-to-racially-profile-her-own-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60067","title":{"rendered":"An RNC Speaker Said Cops Would Be &#8216;Smart&#8217; to Racially Profile Her Own Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/935me3\/an-rnc-speaker-said-cops-would-be-smart-to-racially-profile-her-own-son\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>An RNC Speaker Said Cops Would Be &#8216;Smart&#8217; to Racially Profile Her Own Son<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VICE<\/a><br \/>\n2020-08-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carter_sherman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Carter Sherman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/935me3\/an-rnc-speaker-said-cops-would-be-smart-to-racially-profile-her-own-son\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/\/articles\/5f452714ae3f0500a073727c\/lede\/1598367556014-abby-johnson.jpeg?crop=1xw:0.8426xh;0xw,0.0269xh&amp;resize=1000:*\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons,&#8221; anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson said in a YouTube video earlier this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republican_National_Convention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Republican National Convention\u2019s<\/a> top speakers said in a recent video that it would be \u201csmart\u201d for a police officer to racially profile her biracial son, because \u201cstatistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recognize that I\u2019m gonna have to have a different conversation with Jude than I do with my brown-haired little Irish, very, very pale-skinned, white sons, as they grow up,\u201d Abby Johnson, a prominent anti-abortion activist, said in a 15-plus-minutes video posted to YouTube in late June, after weeks of nationwide protests against the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_of_George_Floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police killing of George Floyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eUHA7aPOlGM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, Jude is an adorable, perpetually tan-looking little brown boy,\u201d said Johnson, whose husband blogged, in 2015, about adopting their biracial son at his birth. Johnson is white. \u201cBut one day, he\u2019s going to grow up and he\u2019s going to be a tall, probably sort of large, intimidating-looking-maybe brown man. And my other boys are probably gonna look like nerdy white guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/935me3\/an-rnc-speaker-said-cops-would-be-smart-to-racially-profile-her-own-son\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons,&#8221; anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson said in a YouTube video earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,26,20],"tags":[31079,31078,22209],"class_list":["post-60067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-abby-johnson","tag-carter-sherman","tag-vice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60067","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=60067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60069,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60067\/revisions\/60069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}