{"id":13172,"date":"2012-02-27T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13172"},"modified":"2012-02-28T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:38:19","slug":"eric-holder-reality-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13172\/eric-holder-reality-is-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder: Reality is Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pity Eric Holder. To be a professional scold is not an attractive quality. Nor is being woefully incompetent. Yet Holder manages to be both. Thus do we end up with the Attorney General of the United States decrying the racism of &#8230; wait for it &#8230; school principals throughout America. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/02\/27\/holder-targets-school-discipline-practices-unacceptable-destructive\/#ixzz1ncBXOvnK\" target=\"_blank\">From the Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve often seen that students of color, students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and students with special needs are disproportionately likely to be suspended or expelled,\u201d Holder said in Atlanta, Ga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is, quite simply, unacceptable. \u2026 These unnecessary and destructive policies must be changed,\u201d Holder said at the meeting, which was hosted by 100 Black Men of Atlanta Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Holder attributed his claim of racial disparity in school discipline to a 2011 study that he said showed \u201c83 percent of African American male students and 74 percent of Hispanic male students ended up in trouble and suspended for some period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Holder\u2019s speech ignored the report\u2019s conclusion that 59 percent of white males are also disciplined. He ignored other data suggesting that the different discipline rates roughly align with actual schoolyard behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If one presumes racism is everywhere, one is destined to find it everywhere. As Abraham Maslow noted, for the man with only a hammer in his toolkit, every problem is a nail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pity Eric Holder. To be a professional scold is not an attractive quality. Nor is being woefully incompetent. Yet Holder manages to be both. Thus do we end up with the Attorney General of the United States decrying the racism of &#8230; wait for it &#8230; school principals throughout America. From the Daily Caller: \u201cWe\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,498,316,3092],"class_list":["post-13172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-education","tag-eric-holder","tag-justice-department","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13175,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172\/revisions\/13175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}