{"id":2537,"date":"2009-02-19T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2009-02-19T08:21:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T13:21:57","slug":"eric-holder-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/19\/eric-holder-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder Is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/02\/18\/holder.race.relations\/\">Yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his first major speech since being confirmed, the nation&#8217;s first black attorney general told an overflow crowd celebrating Black History Month at the Justice Department the nation remains &#8220;voluntarily socially segregated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,&#8221; Holder declared.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He is absolutely right, and anyone who says otherwise is almost unbelievably naive or pushing an undeclared agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday: In his first major speech since being confirmed, the nation&#8217;s first black attorney general told an overflow crowd celebrating Black History Month at the Justice Department the nation remains &#8220;voluntarily socially segregated.&#8221; &#8220;Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[80,78,497,79,491],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society","tag-america","tag-eric-holder","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}