{"id":1240,"date":"2007-11-19T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/11\/19\/racism-in-central-indiana\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:48:04","slug":"racism-in-central-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/11\/19\/racism-in-central-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism in central indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtimesonline.com\/stories\/comments\/cmt.php?sto_uri=L3N0b3JpZXMvMjAwNy8xMS8xOS9uZXdzLnFwLTQ3NDk1Nzcuc3Rv\"><\/a>This is a comment to news article about efforts to confront the racist history and reputation of a town that is halfway between Bloomington and Indianapolis.&nbsp; I liked that this commenter noted that a homogeneous community is fundamental to racist beliefs and that racism exists outside of the lower-class white communities (another commentor replied to the story with &#8220;It could be all the rednecks in Martinsville&#8230;..&#8221;) that are the stereotypical face of racism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Keep in mind that there are racists everywhere, including our beloved and enlightened B-town. As far as a small Indiana town goes, M-ville is no more or less racist than the typical. Unfortunately, the &#8220;typical&#8221; is a homogenous, conservative community that can tend toward attitudes of prejudice. This, however, is true in most homogenous, conservative communities. I went to school with a bunch of folks from the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, and most of their attitudes would be considered racist. Bottomline, if we don&#8217;t experience heterogenous community, we will ALL tend toward prejudicial thought and attitude. M-ville folks are no different, and I encourage them (myself a grad from M-ville HS) to &#8220;see the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtimesonline.com\/stories\/2007\/11\/19\/news.qp-4749577.sto?1195486307\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a comment to news article about efforts to confront the racist history and reputation of a town that is halfway between Bloomington and Indianapolis.&nbsp; I liked that this commenter noted that a homogeneous community is fundamental to racist beliefs and that racism exists outside of the lower-class white communities (another commentor replied to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/11\/19\/racism-in-central-indiana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racism in central indiana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-k0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}