{"id":171,"date":"2014-11-27T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2014-11-27T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T19:12:08","slug":"the-demonization-of-african-american-youth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?page_id=171","title":{"rendered":"The Demonization of African American Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article\" class=\"overflow\">\n<h3>The Demonization of African American Youth<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0August 26, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The demonization of African American youth as ever-worse murderers, drug dealers, and criminals perpetrated by the right and left alike&#8211;when in fact, murder and other crime by black youth has fallen to 50-year lows and comprises only a tiny fraction of the nation&#8217;s homicide and crime toll&#8211;is addressed in three new Youth Facts blogs:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The myth of youthful drug offenders\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate\/2013\/08\/18\/the-myth-of-youthful-drug-offenders\/\" target=\"_blank\">The myth of youthful drug offenders<\/a> (Reuters op-ed).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why the Gigantic, Decades-Long Drop in Black Youth Crime Threatens Major Interests\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cjcj.org\/news\/6523\" target=\"_blank\">Why the Gigantic, Decades-Long Drop in Black Youth Crime Threatens Major Interests<\/a> (Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mr. President (and Bill O\u2019Reilly): How Did Trayvon Martin \u201cMess Up\u201d?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cjcj.org\/news\/6513\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. President (and Bill O\u2019Reilly): How Did Trayvon Martin \u201cMess Up\u201d?<\/a> (Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Demonization of African American Youth \u00a0August 26, 2013 The demonization of African American youth as ever-worse murderers, drug dealers, and criminals perpetrated by the right and left alike&#8211;when in fact, murder and other crime by black youth has fallen to 50-year lows and comprises only a tiny fraction of the nation&#8217;s homicide and crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}