{"id":709339,"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.com\/index\/709339","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":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YwX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}