{"id":9445,"date":"2017-03-15T15:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/blackslatinosnon-whites-dont-value-education\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:47:16","slug":"blackslatinosnon-whites-dont-value-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/blackslatinosnon-whites-dont-value-education\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBlacks\/Latinos\/non-whites don\u2019t value education like whites do. They don\u2019t work as hard as whites do. They spend more than whites do on junk,\u201d says your standard white guy at the end of the bar dissecting the large racial wealth gap in the United States. \u201cThey just need to get off their butts and bootstrap it up like I did!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the old tried-and-true American bootstrap lore took a big hit this month with a study that shows most families living with the material comfort and range of opportunities normally associated with middle-class status have obtained them the old-fashioned way: inheritance. The racial and wealth gap in the United States is as large as ever and \u201cThe Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap,\u201d shows that inheritance plays a huge factor in that gap.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/news\/opinion\/bootstrap-myth-exposed-white-inheritance-key-driver-in-racial-wealth-gap\/369764533\">Bootstrap myth exposed: White inheritance key driver in racial wealth gap &#8211; WISC<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBlacks\/Latinos\/non-whites don\u2019t value education like whites do. They don\u2019t work as hard as whites do. They spend more than whites do on junk,\u201d says your standard white guy at the end of the bar dissecting the large racial wealth gap in the United States. \u201cThey just need to get off their butts and bootstrap it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[146,148,147],"class_list":["post-9445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-asset-value","tag-cultural-capital","tag-social-capital","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2sl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}