{"id":68413,"date":"2015-05-05T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T00:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68413"},"modified":"2015-05-05T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T00:46:43","slug":"what-is-it-like-to-be-a-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68413","title":{"rendered":"What Is It Like To Be A Minority?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Amerika.org<\/a>: Let me portray for you how it appears to be a minority in society:
\nYou are a captured and defeated people. The wealth here and the laws that protect you are things you could not invent for yourselves. The leaders who do well are not of your people. You are protected by laws that are inherently condescending, and you face a Damoclean choice with police: either they treat you like children and let you get away with murder, which is infuriating, or they force you to obey the rules of the majority, which is humiliating. You face the same choice with personal behavior. You can have your culture and identity but forever be an outsider, a freak to the majority, or you can assimilate and appear to be something exactly as nasty as the term \u201coreo\u201d implies, someone who gave up who they were to be an Uncle Tom. This applies to every minority in every country and it is why throughout history diversity has been a red flag of the failure of an empire, not its \u201cstrength\u201d as our zombie-robot politicians claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Amerika.org: Let me portray for you how it appears to be a minority in society: You are a captured and defeated people. The wealth here and the laws that protect you are things you could not invent for yourselves. … Continue reading →<\/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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t