{"id":193243,"date":"2014-09-02T01:50:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T01:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/02\/after-ferguson-race-deserves-more-attention-not\/"},"modified":"2014-09-02T01:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T01:50:42","slug":"after-ferguson-race-deserves-more-attention-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/02\/after-ferguson-race-deserves-more-attention-not\/","title":{"rendered":"After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/31\/opinion\/sunday\/nicholas-kristof-after-ferguson-race-deserves-more-attention-not-less.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share'>After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/professorfangirl.tumblr.com\/post\/96312219824\/after-ferguson-race-deserves-more-attention-not-less\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">professorfangirl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. (Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.)&rdquo; And yet &ldquo; a 2011 study by scholars at Harvard and Tufts found that whites, on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black racism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fuck. Me. Sideways.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less &#8211; NYTimes.com professorfangirl: &ldquo;The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/02\/after-ferguson-race-deserves-more-attention-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7500,994,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}