{"id":2017,"date":"2017-01-26T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2017-01-26T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:52:44","slug":"racism-as-squandered-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/racism-as-squandered-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism as squandered alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I strongly believe that for all the ways white people benefit materially from racism, that we&#8217;re very damaged by it.\u00a0[Many]\u00a0poor white people see themselves as white before they understand themselves as poor. There&#8217;s a potentially very powerful alliance between poor whites and poor blacks in our country, and that alliance has been undermined.\u00a0And ultimately, I think, who it benefits is a tiny, tiny little segment of the society \u2014 this is another way of talking about the one percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Eula Biss (via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onbeing.org\/programs\/eula-biss-lets-talk-whiteness\/\">On Being<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I strongly believe that for all the ways white people benefit materially from racism, that we&#8217;re very damaged by it.\u00a0[Many]\u00a0poor white people see themselves as white before they understand themselves as poor. There&#8217;s a potentially very powerful alliance between poor whites and poor blacks in our country, and that alliance has been undermined.\u00a0And ultimately, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/racism-as-squandered-alliance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Racism as squandered alliance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}