{"id":333,"date":"2008-02-01T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/02\/01\/the-soft-bigotry-of-electability\/"},"modified":"2011-06-18T23:31:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T03:31:52","slug":"the-soft-bigotry-of-electability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/02\/the-soft-bigotry-of-electability\/","title":{"rendered":"The soft bigotry of &#8220;electability&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White homeowners afraid of a black family moving into their neighborhoods often encourage the would-be seller to pull the home off the market. &#8220;I&#8217;m not racist,&#8221; they explain, &#8220;but other people are. And all of our home prices will suffer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These homeowners are perpetuating bigotry, and so are voters who won&#8217;t cast their ballots for a woman or African-American because of &#8220;electability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stop wondering whether America is &#8220;ready&#8221; for a non-white or non-male person to be President. Wonder if YOU are ready. Then cast your vote for the best candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White homeowners afraid of a black family moving into their neighborhoods often encourage the would-be seller to pull the home off the market. &#8220;I&#8217;m not racist,&#8221; they explain, &#8220;but other people are. And all of our home prices will suffer.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/02\/the-soft-bigotry-of-electability\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44935,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts-boston-cambridge","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}