{"id":516573,"date":"2010-04-05T18:05:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011531331_minoritiesandthecensus.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-05T18:05:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:05:18","slug":"minorities-and-the-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516573","title":{"rendered":"Minorities and the census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hidden racism in the census?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am very disturbed that our government is perpetuating racism by distinguishing citizens based on differences in race, language spoken, income and other differences to divide us as Americans. [\u201cCensus Day important for Latinos,\u201d Opinion, April 4.]<\/p>\n<p>This is either done out of ignorance or designed to promote a consensus that we are not the same and therefore not equal. Casual observation of our society would indicate that we are truly a melting pot and that most Americans are not racist.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the results on \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d for example. It is obvious most Americans are fair-minded. I propose that if we truly want to stamp out all feelings of difference based upon race, that we remove race as a criteria for anything.<\/p>\n<p>I have to believe that some of our political leaders believe promoting racism under the guise of fairness is to their political benefit. This saddens me, but I believe that the American spirit will overcome all obstacles.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 John Finnila, Renton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden racism in the census? I am very disturbed that our government is perpetuating racism by distinguishing citizens based on differences in race, language spoken, income and other differences to divide us as Americans. [\u201cCensus Day important for Latinos,\u201d Opinion, April 4.] This is either done out of ignorance or designed to promote a consensus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}