{"id":52012,"date":"2014-01-23T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52012"},"modified":"2014-01-23T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:31:07","slug":"simmering-racial-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52012","title":{"rendered":"Simmering Racial Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just turned to NYTimes.com and read this: “The family of George J. Stinney Jr., who was put to death at 14 for the murder of two white girls, is seeking exoneration in South Carolina, a state where racial matters still simmer.”<\/p>\n

Where exactly is a place with a lot of races living closely together and “racial matters” don’t still simmer? The only places where racial matters don’t simmer are in homogeneous societies like Japan and Oregon.<\/p>\n

* Was there such an uproar<\/a> when we held the Olympics in the totalitarian state of China? How is Russia any worse than China? Russia, it seems to me, has much more freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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