{"id":6944,"date":"2017-10-02T22:06:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/05\/gates-race-discussion-must-be-deep-inclusive-fearless\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:58:45","slug":"gates-race-discussion-must-be-deep-inclusive-fearless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/gates-race-discussion-must-be-deep-inclusive-fearless\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates: Race discussion must be deep, inclusive, fearless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the 600 who gathered to hear Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at Furman&#8217;s Younts Conference Center Sept. 18 was the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/opinion\/gates-race-discussion-must-deep-inclusive-fearless\/nLTixZ0BtAo1UknNscdb2I\/\"><em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution&#8217;s<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>Leroy Chapman who wrote an opinion piece for the <i>AJC<\/i>\u00a0about Gates&#8217; remarks. Chapman agrees with Gates that the country should spend more time talking about the &#8220;economic underpinnings that might be fanning racial hostility and feeding persistent gaps in wealth and wellness between white America and racial minorities &#8230;&#8221; Says Chapman, &#8220;Fruitful conversation about something as complicated as race requires that we in the media go beyond business as usual.&#8221; Chapman explains how the <em>AJC<\/em> takes that challenge on.<\/p>\n<p>Gates&#8217; talk, &#8220;Black America Since MLK,&#8221; was hosted by Furman&#8217;s Riley Institute and the Department of Politics and International Affairs, with support from South Carolina ETV\u00a0and Furman\u2019s Tocqueville Program and Task Force on Slavery and Justice.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the 600 who gathered to hear Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at Furman&#8217;s Younts Conference Center Sept. 18 was the Atlanta Journal-Constitution&#8217;s Leroy Chapman who wrote an opinion piece for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,6,32,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}