{"id":1734,"date":"2018-03-22T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2018-03-22T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:56:22","slug":"sociological-constructs-hatred-native-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"sociological constructs; hatred; Native Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple weeks, I&#8217;ve been reading the college text book: <strong><em>Essentials of Sociology<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0If you&#8217;re going to be president, understanding the &#8220;essentials&#8221; of sociological constructs would seem important, huh. \u00a0Just sayin&#8217;. \u00a0Anyway, this morning I was reading a chapter about <strong><em>&#8220;Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0It was noted, among a lot of things, that: \u00a0&#8220;When state machinery is harnessed to hatred, as it was by the Nazis &#8212; who exploited the schools, police, courts, mass media, and almost all aspects of the government &#8212; prejudice becomes practically irresistible.&#8221; \u00a0Ok&#8230; \u00a0U.S. &#8220;state machinery,&#8221; if you will, was harnessed to hatred of the Native Americans at the beginning of this country, as an example. \u00a0This &#8220;prejudice&#8221; led to one of the biggest genocides in the history of mankind (20 million people killed), and the wholesale taking of land (<em>every<\/em> treaty with the Native Americans was broken). \u00a0And none of this has been made right on any type of significant level. \u00a0Our administration would propose it be made right, in <em>spades!<\/em>\u00a0See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/native-america\">position paper on Native American issues.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple weeks, I&#8217;ve been reading the college text book: Essentials of Sociology. \u00a0If you&#8217;re going to be president, understanding the &#8220;essentials&#8221; of sociological constructs would seem important, huh. \u00a0Just sayin&#8217;. \u00a0Anyway, this morning I was reading a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1734\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}