{"id":3508,"date":"2022-11-01T03:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T03:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2022-11-03T03:55:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T03:55:41","slug":"the-cruelty-of-exploiting-vulnerable-people-for-political-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"The cruelty of exploiting vulnerable people for political advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Ethnic Media Services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ben Jealous is the president of People For the American Way, a progressive advocacy organization founded to fight right-wing extremism and build a democratic society that implements the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity and justice for all.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, journalist Adam Serwer published a book called \u201cThe Cruelty is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump\u2019s America.\u201d Serwer has made the point that Trump is a symptom, not the cause, of a cruel streak in American politics. There is a long history of backlash against progress, going back to the post-Reconstruction period in which white supremacists used violence to reverse the enfranchisement of Black people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blackpressusa.com\/commentary-the-cruelty-of-exploiting-vulnerable-people-for-political-advantage-2\/?utm_source=BlackPressUSA-Sign-up&amp;utm_campaign=acb1da8be6-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9f743ecd45-acb1da8be6-358152187&amp;ct=t\">BlackPress USA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/spotlight-ethnic-media\/the-cruelty-of-exploiting-vulnerable-people-for-political-advantage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Published without changes from Ethic Media Services<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ethnic Media Services Ben Jealous is the president of People For the American Way, a progressive advocacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,48],"tags":[66,78],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regular-column","category-social-justice","tag-african-american","tag-racial-discrimination"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}