{"id":349833,"date":"2018-02-25T22:52:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/for-some-reason-being-white-still-matters\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T22:52:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:52:06","slug":"for-some-reason-being-white-still-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/for-some-reason-being-white-still-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"For Some Reason, Being White Still Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99989\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99989\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-22-at-2.10.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"367\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Evan Nesterak | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the wake of the August 2017\u00a0neo-Nazi rally and counter-protest in Charlottesville, VA, the University of Virginia\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforpolitics.org\/crystalball\/articles\/new-poll-some-americans-express-troubling-racial-attitudes-even-as-majority-oppose-white-supremacists\/\">Center for Politics<\/a>\u00a0(with\u00a0Reuters\/Ipsos) conducted a survey that warned, \u201csome Americans express troubling racial attitudes even as majority oppose white supremacists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asking whether white people and\/or racial minorities in the United States were \u201cunder attack,\u201d it found the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>+ 14 percent\u00a0agreed\u00a0that white people were under attack but\u00a0disagreed\u00a0with the statement that nonwhites were under attack.<\/p>\n<p>+ 31 percent strongly or somewhat agreed that the country needed to \u201cprotect and preserve its White European heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>+ 16 percent agreed that \u201cmarriage should only be allowed between two people of the same race\u201d and\u00a017 percent agreed that marriage should be restricted to the same race.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Americans are fearful, the nation is changing and most people\u2019s place in it is uncertain \u2014 and racism is one of the ways this fear plays out.\u00a0\u00a0Racial identify is America\u2019s version of apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>Since the nation\u2019s founding four centuries ago, racial identity has played a key role in the country\u2019s social, moral and political orders \u2014 especially what it means to be \u201cwhite.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0first Africans land in the British colony of James Town (now Virginia) in 1619 and their status, either slave or indentured servant, remains somewhat a mystery.\u00a0\u00a0Along with other early\u00a0colonialists, whether&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/23\/for-some-reason-being-white-still-matters\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Evan Nesterak | CC BY 2.0 In the wake of the August 2017\u00a0neo-Nazi rally and counter-protest in Charlottesville, VA, the University of Virginia\u2019s Center for Politics\u00a0(with\u00a0Reuters\/Ipsos) conducted a survey that warned, \u201csome Americans express troubling racial attitudes even as majority oppose white supremacists.\u201d Asking whether white people and\/or racial minorities in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349833","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=349833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}