{"id":2673,"date":"2020-06-03T16:56:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2020-06-05T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T19:25:41","slug":"racism-as-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/racism-as-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism as a scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re a white American who has racist ideas, and you&#8217;ve perpetuated those ideas&#8230; you were simultaneously a victim and a victimizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[Throughout history] you had so many powerful Americans trying to convince [everyone] that black people were inferior, [because this belief served] their own self-interest. &#8230; Poor whites whose poverty was directly the result of the riches of white slave-holders became [convinced that] it <em>should<\/em> be this way! And so then those people [in power] were able to get richer and richer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;People have been tricked, they&#8217;ve been manipulated, they&#8217;ve been hoodwinked, and that&#8217;s what I want people to realize.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">-Ibram X. Kendi, via <a href=\"https:\/\/brenebrown.com\/podcast\/brene-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist\/\"><em>Unlocking Us (Bren\u00e9 Brown)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re a white American who has racist ideas, and you&#8217;ve perpetuated those ideas&#8230; you were simultaneously a victim and a victimizer. &#8220;[Throughout history] you had so many powerful Americans trying to convince [everyone] that black people were inferior, [because this belief served] their own self-interest. &#8230; Poor whites whose poverty was directly the result &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/racism-as-a-scam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Racism as a scam&#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\/2673"}],"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=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}