{"id":7883,"date":"2002-08-16T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-16T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=7883"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:38:42","slug":"lte-preaching-to-the-converted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2002\/08\/16\/lte-preaching-to-the-converted\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE: Preaching to the Converted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:04 AM<br>From: Ray McInnis<br>Subject: letter to the editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my first posting on this discussion group. I applaud the work of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2002\/07\/01\/2002-july-september-letters-from-readers\/:%26quot;https:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/newsletter.html%26quot;\">multiracial activist newsletter<\/a>. Provides a much needed forum for discussion of prejudical behaviors, but unfortunately it is basically \u201cpreaching to the converted.\u201d If we want to change attitudes, we need to discover how to target the racially prejudiced, and how to prevent others (especially the young from becoming prejudiced). In 1929, in \u201cRace Attitudes of Children\u201d, Bruno Lasker, an American sociologist, published what I think is the first empirical evidence that prejudice is learned a learned behavior. Lasker\u2019s finding was an important discovery, but we seem to have not heeded the message. Change in prejudical attitudes occurs, person by person, one person at a time. How do we crack the code to allow us to make attitudinal changes of this sort? I am not asking this question as a poseur, as merely posturing. Instead I am genuinely intersted in seeking methods that we all can use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ray McInnis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:04 AMFrom: Ray McInnisSubject: letter to the editor This is my first posting on this discussion group. I applaud the work of the&nbsp;multiracial activist newsletter. Provides a much needed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"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":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-239","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","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\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7884,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions\/7884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}