{"id":8855,"date":"2020-06-29T18:54:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/29\/the-harsh-reality-of-racism\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:33:57","slug":"the-harsh-reality-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-harsh-reality-of-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"The harsh reality of racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Racism has become so inherent in our system that it has become normalized,&#8221; Qwameek Bethea &#8217;21, president of Furman&#8217;s chapter of the NAACP, wrote in an op-ed published online June 28 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/06\/28\/opinion-racism-harsh-reality-young-black-man\/3251847001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a>. &#8220;There are racial borders in our health care system, our education system, our financial systems and our criminal justice system. What are we doing to address that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I attend a predominantly white college. I live in a predominantly white neighborhood. I have had the opportunity to see and experience things that most of my Black brothers and sisters have not, but that doesn\u2019t change anything. I am a Black man in America. According to the NAACP Criminal Justice Fact Sheet, a Black man is three times more likely to be killed by police than a white man, and five times more likely to be incarcerated than their white counterparts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Racism has become so inherent in our system that it has become normalized,&#8221; Qwameek Bethea &#8217;21, president of Furman&#8217;s chapter of the NAACP, wrote in an op-ed published online June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":8856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,36,32,75],"tags":[339,346,282,307],"class_list":["post-8855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-philosophy","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-pre-law","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-blm","tag-op-ed","tag-racism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}