{"id":228117,"date":"2016-03-01T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=228117"},"modified":"2016-03-01T13:03:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:03:28","slug":"us-racist-nation-based-slavery-genocide-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-racist-nation-based-slavery-genocide-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"US a racist nation based on slavery, genocide: Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States is a racist country that was based on slavery and genocide and where African Americans and the indigenous people continue to face \u201cpersecution\u201d and \u201cgenocide,\u201d a researcher and historian in Washington says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis persecution of poor and black, brown and other people is very much part of American society because it is a large white settler colony,\u201d said Dr. Randy Short, who has a Ph.D in African studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a metastasized state of Israel\u201d that \u201coppresses and steals,\u201d Dr. Short told Press TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA society that is based on white supremacy and oppression,\u201d he added. \u201cYou see a very, very sick genocidal society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite its scientific advances, the US \u201clacks civilization,\u201d the researcher noted. \u201cThis is why you see so much drug abuse, so much murder, so much abortions, so much mass incarceration because it\u2019s not a real organic society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police in the United States killed over 1,150 people in 2015, with the largest police departments disproportionately killing at least 321 African Americans, according to data compiled by an activist group that runs the Mapping Police Violence project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/01\/453140\/Randy-Short\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is a racist country that was based on slavery and genocide and where African Americans and the indigenous people continue to face \u201cpersecution\u201d and \u201cgenocide,\u201d a researcher and historian in Washington says. \u201cThis persecution of poor and black, brown and other people is very much part of American society because it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-228117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}