{"id":5159,"date":"2004-01-15T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2021-06-14T16:30:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:30:25","slug":"fighting-hate-across-cultures-and-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/01\/15\/fighting-hate-across-cultures-and-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Hate, Across Cultures and Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Gewirtzman says, “She’s black, I’m white;” Maybe he thinks he’s just talking about physical descriptions, but the government-imposed “races” of “black” and “white” are just as dangerous as the “races” of “Aryan” and “non-Aryan” that resulted in the Holocaust. Both are based on the assumption that there is a racially “pure” and “superior” group that must be protected, by any means, from “contamination” with an “inferior” group.<\/p>\n

Fighting Hate, Across Cultures and Generations<\/a>
\nThe New York Times
\nJanuary 14, 2004
\nBy COREY KILGANNON <\/p>\n

David Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Murekatete stood before a restless group of students at Great Neck North High School, waiting to tell their stories. They seemed to be an unlikely pair speaking on what seemed an unlikely topic – genocide – for a group of teenagers munching on sandwiches and rustling snack wrappers. <\/p>\n

By the time they had finished, however, the only sound that could be heard in the room was the faint hum of a radiator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Gewirtzman says, “She’s black, I’m white;” Maybe he thinks he’s just talking about physical descriptions, but the government-imposed “races” of “black” and “white” are just as dangerous as the “races” of “Aryan” and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-hate-crimes-and-hate-groups"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1ld","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}