{"id":3895,"date":"2008-10-28T10:16:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T17:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2008-10-28T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T17:16:24","slug":"can-dog-whistle-racism-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/10\/28\/can-dog-whistle-racism-be-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Can &#8220;Dog-Whistle Racism&#8221; be Stopped?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_10_28_08\/2008_10_28_blain.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_10_28_08\/2008_10_28_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com\/atlas_shrugs\/images\/2008\/01\/07\/obama.gif\" alt=\"obama\" \/>A federal judge this weekend rejected a lawsuit by a Pennsylvania attorney that Senator Barack Obama is ineligible to run for president because he was either born in Kenya or is a citizen of Indonesia. The US Constitution requires that a person be born in the United States and be a citizen of the country in order to be eligible to serve as president. Undoubtedly many in the fringe right wing will be disappointed by the court&#8217;s decision. The internet is abound with far-fetched, racially tinged conspiracy theories about Obama&#8217;s religion, origin, and race. But the online racist vitriol is spilling over into real life: think about Governor Palin&#8217;s mob-like rallies calling for Obama&#8217;s death, a McCain supporter who &#8220;read Obama was an Arab,&#8221; and protesters chanting: &#8220;the only difference between Obama and Osama is BS.&#8221; Even Party officials are playing the game, from Congressional Representatives using the word &#8220;uppity,&#8221; to Palin linking Obama to &#8220;domestic terrorism&#8221; via Bill Ayers. Language coded to trigger racist feelings are an every-day phenomenon, and, as Americans get ready to elect the nation&#8217;s first black president, so-called &#8220;dog-whistle racism&#8221; could get a lot worse before too long. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Ludovic Blain, Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/StopDogWhistleRacism.com\">StopDogWhistleRacism.com<\/a>, a project of the Center for Social Inclusion<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program A federal judge this weekend rejected a lawsuit by a Pennsylvania attorney that Senator Barack Obama is ineligible to run for president because he was either born in Kenya or is a citizen of Indonesia. The US Constitution requires that a person be born in the United States and be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}