{"id":7550,"date":"2016-01-06T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2016-01-06T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:40:32","slug":"hear-hear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/hear-hear-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear! Hear!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-oregon-standoff-and-the-dividing-lines-of-race-ethnicity-and-religion\/2016\/01\/04\/312364c8-b325-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html\">The Oregon standoff and America\u2019s double standards on race and religion &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/eugene-robinson\">Eugene Robinson<\/a> Opinion writer<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What I want is that African Americans, Latino Americans, Muslim Americans and other \u201coutsiders\u201d be seen as the Americans we are. What I want is acknowledgment that we, too, have a stake in our democracy and its future course. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\"><strong>What I want is the recognition that no one can \u201ctake back\u201d the country \u2014 which happens to be led by its first African American president \u2014 because it belongs to me as much as to you.<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p>These are not the sentiments we\u2019re hearing in the presidential campaign, though \u2014 at least, not on the Republican side. Following Trump\u2019s lead, candidates are competing to sound angrier and more embittered. That\u2019s why I am so worried.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-oregon-standoff-and-the-dividing-lines-of-race-ethnicity-and-religion\/2016\/01\/04\/312364c8-b325-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html\">The Oregon standoff and America\u2019s double standards on race and religion &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregon standoff and America\u2019s double standards on race and religion &#8211; The Washington Post By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer What I want is that African Americans, Latino Americans, Muslim Americans and other \u201coutsiders\u201d be seen as the Americans we are. What I want is acknowledgment that we, too, have a stake in our democracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/hear-hear-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hear! Hear!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}