{"id":1953,"date":"2008-12-04T22:35:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T02:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2008-12-04T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T02:47:00","slug":"the-race-industry-the-southern-poverty-law-center-is-a-thriving-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/the-race-industry-the-southern-poverty-law-center-is-a-thriving-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The race industry: The Southern Poverty Law Center is a thriving business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ron Smith &#8212; Baltimore Sun    <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The truth about &#8216;hate crimes&#8217; and the racial justice racket  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;The Southern Poverty Law Center is a thriving business. The Alabama-based &#8220;nonprofit&#8221; firm has become a font of riches for founder Morris Dees and his associates. Its last tax return (2005) showed it took in nearly $111 million in donations the previous four years alone and reported assets of $189.4 million at the end of 2005&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To me and to other observant conservatives, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a clever scam, relentlessly cultivating for profit the fear that this nation is filled with Klansmen and rife with people eager to perpetrate genocide. If you&#8217;re curious about this organization and its legitimacy, spend some time on the Internet and assess it for yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/oped\/bal-op.smith03dec03,0,504953.column\">HERE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More on the race industry and other racketeers  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org\/contribute.php\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Smith &#8212; Baltimore Sun The truth about &#8216;hate crimes&#8217; and the racial justice racket &#8230;The Southern Poverty Law Center is a thriving business. The Alabama-based &#8220;nonprofit&#8221; firm has become a font of riches for founder Morris Dees and his associates. Its last tax return (2005) showed it took in nearly $111 million in donations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}