{"id":52368,"date":"2014-02-11T08:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52368"},"modified":"2014-02-11T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:09:08","slug":"nyt-holder-urges-states-to-repeal-bans-on-felons-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52368","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Holder Urges States to Repeal Bans on Felons\u2019 Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: &#8220;The call by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was mostly symbolic, but it marked his latest effort to end laws that he says disproportionately keep minorities from the polls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why not instead ask minorities to commit fewer felonies? How about a government campaign to encourage minorities to rape, rob and murder half as many people in 2014 as in 2013? I think we could all get behind that. <\/p>\n<p>Would we be better off if we stopped using euphemisms and substituted &#8220;blacks&#8221; for &#8220;minorities&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: &#8220;The call by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was mostly symbolic, but it marked his latest effort to end laws that he says disproportionately keep minorities from the polls.&#8221; Why not instead ask minorities to commit fewer felonies? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52368\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52368","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=52368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52370,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52368\/revisions\/52370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}