{"id":253,"date":"2010-07-19T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-07-19T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:04:12","slug":"the-roots-of-white-anxiety-nytimes-71810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of White Anxiety (NYTimes 7\/18\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article helps explain some of my issues with what has become of Affirmative Action. ML King and Bayard Rustin had it right when they said poverty was a \u201cpeople\u201d problem, not a \u201cblack\u201d problem. <!--more-->Expensive tuition is the price wealth pays to maintain its privilege of prestigious private education. Better that this be done by (and for) the people through their government than by a small set of prosperous individuals (of whatever racial background) who finance it and reap the privilege. IF their kids have the ability, they would reap the benefit, but not otherwise. I remember some real dummies at Princeton. Click Comment for some comments I copied from the post.<\/p>\n<p>Original at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/19\/opinion\/19douthat.html?th&amp;emc=th\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/19\/opinion\/19douthat.html?th&amp;emc=th<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article helps explain some of my issues with what has become of Affirmative Action. ML King and Bayard Rustin had it right when they said poverty was a \u201cpeople\u201d problem, not a \u201cblack\u201d problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}