{"id":998,"date":"2004-07-01T19:30:25","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T23:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/civil_rights\/"},"modified":"2004-07-01T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T23:30:25","slug":"civil_rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/civil_rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some ironic timing.  On the same day that President Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/07\/20040701-10.html\">commemorates the 40th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act<\/a>, a Florida court has to force the state to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/07\/01\/florida.elections\/index.html\">release the names of &#8220;suspected felons&#8221; it is purging from the eligible voter rolls<\/a>.<br \/>\nRecall that in 2000, the sounds-like felon name trick was used to remove many minority (i.e., Democratic) people from the voter list.<br \/>\nFourty years hasn&#8217;t changed everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/civil_rights\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Civil Rights\"><p>Here&#8217;s some ironic timing. On the same day that President Bush commemorates the 40th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act, a Florida court has to force the state to release the names of &#8220;suspected felons&#8221; it is purging from the eligible voter rolls. Recall that in 2000, the sounds-like felon name trick was used to remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}