{"id":312,"date":"2007-12-19T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/12\/19\/race-and-crime\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:04:00","slug":"race-and-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/12\/19\/race-and-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Race And Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This campaign ad from 1988 is part of the larger politicization of the black underclass. &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221; and the &#8220;welfare queen&#8221; both emerged as symbols during this period with which to demonize poor blacks for political clout. Ultimately, using the name Willie Horton became a powerful tool to criticize politicians for being weak on crime and not protecting the innocent white population from the guilty black population.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, increasing toughness of the criminal justice system led to a situation, today, where about 1\/2 of all black men are in the prison system. See an interesting entry on Willie Horton on wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willie_Horton\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This campaign ad from 1988 is part of the larger politicization of the black underclass. &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221; and the &#8220;welfare queen&#8221; both emerged as symbols during this period with which to demonize poor blacks for political clout. Ultimately, using the name Willie Horton became a powerful tool to criticize politicians for being weak on crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,2056,23384,55,778,85,285,1760],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-crimelaw","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-intersectionality","tag-politics","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71824,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/71824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}