{"id":6046,"date":"2022-07-27T21:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T01:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2022-07-27T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T01:54:10","slug":"get-to-know-fair-advisor-wilfred-reilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/get-to-know-fair-advisor-wilfred-reilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Get To Know FAIR Advisor Wilfred Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Wilfred Reilly teaches at Kentucky State University, a historically black college, and perhaps not where you would expect to find a black professor who had written a book titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FVgJwg\">Hate Crime Hoaxes: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War<\/a><\/em>, which uses empirical evidence to dismantle the panicked narrative that hate crimes and racial tensions are an epidemic sweeping the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reilly grew up in and around Chicago, or \u201cChi-cah-go,\u201d as he pronounces it. His mother was an inner-city school teacher. He canvassed for Environment America and the Human Rights Campaign. He checked every box you might expect to have produced a hardcore leftist. Instead, he emerged as a staunch centrist with a penchant for diving head-first into controversial topics. For instance, in Reilly\u2019s 2020 book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3IwZ4wC\">Taboo: 10 Facts You Can\u2019t Talk About<\/a><\/em>, a follow-up to <em>Hate Crime Hoaxes<\/em>, he challenges popular mainstream narratives by claiming that \u201cWhite privilege and \u2018cultural appropriation\u2019 turn out hardly to exist at all when examined using modern empirical methods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/fairforall.substack.com\/p\/wilfred-reilly-interrogating-dogma\">READ MORE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Wilfred Reilly teaches at Kentucky State University, a historically black college, and perhaps not where you would expect to find a black professor who had written a book titled Hate Crime Hoaxes: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War, which uses empirical evidence to dismantle the panicked narrative that hate crimes and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":6047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fair-advisors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}