{"id":9472,"date":"2014-11-28T19:39:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T03:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9472"},"modified":"2019-12-23T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T00:05:34","slug":"todays-lesson-both-you-and-morgan-freeman-are-wrong-about-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/11\/28\/todays-lesson-both-you-and-morgan-freeman-are-wrong-about-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Lesson: Both You and Morgan Freeman are Wrong About Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2853,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gawker.com\\\/todays-lesson-both-you-and-morgan-freeman-are-wrong-ab-1659004705&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/gawker.com\\\/todays-lesson-both-you-and-morgan-freeman-are-wrong-ab-1659004705&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/todays-lesson-both-you-and-morgan-freeman-are-wrong-ab-1659004705\" title=\"Today's Lesson: Both You and Morgan Freeman are Wrong About Racism\">Today&#8217;s Lesson: Both You and Morgan Freeman are Wrong About Racism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I believe racism is my problem. <em>My<\/em> problem. I claim it. It is not my problem because I am guilty. It is my problem because I am responsible. I didn&#8217;t create racism. It&#8217;s not my fault. But if I do nothing, I become a part of it. And it is not something I want to be a part of. I can make that decision. You can make that decision. We can all make that decision.<\/p>\n<p>  I know that it can be hard as a white person to read and talk about racism. It&#8217;s hard for everyone to read and talk about racism, because it is an ugly thing. When we confront racism, we commit to staring into the face of something both repellant and familiar. It&#8217;s hard for all of us, but what I know most about is what it&#8217;s like to be white and I can understand the temptation of defensiveness for us white folks. Of resentment. Of feeling accused. I understand the lure of clinging to all the ways in which you, too, don&#8217;t have it so good. I am more than familiar with the temptation to demonstrate your own oppression.<\/p>\n<p>  But it&#8217;s time to grow up. Children make excuses. Children engage in competitions to one-up each other. You&#8217;re not a child anymore. It&#8217;s time to do better.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe racism is my problem. _My_ problem. I claim it. It is not my problem because I am guilty. It is my problem because I am responsible. I didn&#8217;t create racism. It&#8217;s not my fault. But if I do nothing, I become a part of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-9472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}