{"id":1758667,"date":"2026-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1758667"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-the-u-s-failure-to-address-systemic-racism-has-had-dire-consequences-worldnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1758667","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor:\u00a0The U.S.\u2019 failure to address systemic racism has had dire consequences &#8211; Worldnews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"main-article mB40\">\n<div id=\"article-url\">\n<p class=\"art-text\"><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To the editor: Guest contributor Bee Vang&#8217;s op-ed was spot on (\u201cWhat Clint Eastwood\u2019s \u2018Gran Torino\u2019 got right \u2014 and what America refused to learn,\u201d Feb. 4). America&#8217;s original sin, systemic racism, has never been fully acknowledged by our political or media class. And that willful ignorance gave us the racist leadership of<\/span>&#8230;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t read\u00a0full\u00a0story\n                <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;<i>What Clint Eastwood&#8217;s \u2018Gran Torino&#8217; got right \u2014 and what America refused to learn,<\/i>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/article.wn.com\/view\/2026\/02\/06\/Letters_to_the_Editor_The_US_failure_to_address_systemic_rac\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] To the editor: Guest contributor Bee Vang&#8217;s op-ed was spot on (\u201cWhat Clint Eastwood\u2019s \u2018Gran Torino\u2019 got right \u2014 and what America refused to learn,\u201d Feb. 4). America&#8217;s original sin, systemic racism, has never been fully acknowledged by our political or media class. And that willful ignorance gave us the racist leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65,226],"class_list":["post-1758667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-consequence-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}