{"id":104563,"date":"2016-08-28T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T19:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104563"},"modified":"2016-08-28T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T19:21:01","slug":"racists-anonymous-is-a-thing-holds-12-step-meetings-at-north-carolina-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104563","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Racists Anonymous Is a Thing, Holds 12-Step Meetings at North Carolina Church&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If hatred of other races is interfering with you leading a happy life, then I suspect such a 12-step group as this could help.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2016\/08\/racists-anonymous-meetings-north-carolina-church\">Complex.com<\/a>: Is racism an addiction and a disease? Is the first step to recovering from racism admitting you have a racism problem?<\/p>\n<p>A white church leader in North Carolina has partnered with a local woman to approach the problem that way, hosting weekly Racists Anonymous meetings modeled after 12-step programs that help people deal with alcohol, drugs, overeating and sex addiction. The group&#8217;s creation, in part at least, seems to have been spurred by recent police shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Nathan King of Trinity United Church of Christ in Concord, N.C. tells WCNC-TV that the group began after, &#8220;It seemed like every week we were coming into worship and we were doing another prayer because someone had been killed in the street. &#8230; It&#8217;s to deal with the racism within ourselves and to eliminate the racism within ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If hatred of other races is interfering with you leading a happy life, then I suspect such a 12-step group as this could help. Complex.com: Is racism an addiction and a disease? Is the first step to recovering from racism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104564,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104563\/revisions\/104564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}