{"id":14055,"date":"2013-08-07T21:14:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14055"},"modified":"2013-08-07T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:14:38","slug":"is-it-difficult-to-talk-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/07\/is-it-difficult-to-talk-about-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Difficult To Talk About Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Show with John Oliver has a pointedly humorous segment on this subject.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:428355\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" style=\"border:thick ridge 3009900\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The question about stop and frisk is an interesting one.  In my almost 70 years, I have been stopped by the police without much reason a small number of times.  I can be frustrated by it, and yet understand the point of view of the policemen. I can then go on my way, and use the experience as an interesting story.<\/p>\n<p>I can see that if this were to happen to me very often to the point where it made it difficult for me not to worry about being able to keep a normal schedule, I would have a very different view of it. <\/p>\n<p>It surprises me that people who rarely get stopped cannot see how different it would be if one were frequently stopped.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot fully understand all the details of another person&#8217;s life, but it would be nice if you could at least have an inkling that not all experiences are exactly like your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Show with John Oliver has a pointedly humorous segment on this subject. The question about stop and frisk is an interesting one. In my almost 70 years, I have been stopped by the police without much reason a small number of times. I can be frustrated by it, and yet understand the point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14056,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055\/revisions\/14056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}