{"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":"<p>I just turned to NYTimes.com and read this: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where exactly is a place with a lot of races living closely together and &#8220;racial matters&#8221; don&#8217;t still simmer? The only places where racial matters don&#8217;t simmer are in homogeneous societies like Japan and Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>* Was there such an <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/sochi-2014-ioc-jeopardized-safety-of-athletes-and-fans-in-awarding-games-to-putins-russia\/2014\/01\/22\/3c5427a8-83aa-11e3-8099-9181471f7aaf_story.html?hpid=z4\">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":"<p>I just turned to NYTimes.com and read this: &#8220;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52012\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52012","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=52012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52032,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52012\/revisions\/52032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}