{"id":136410,"date":"2018-05-11T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136410"},"modified":"2018-05-13T00:35:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T06:35:52","slug":"on-the-diversity-of-military-spouses-and-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/on-the-diversity-of-military-spouses-and-mothers.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Diversity of Military Spouses and Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So of the military spouses selected \/ invited \/ accepting the chance to go to the White House, we ended up with practically only white people?<\/p>\n<p>A very oddly self-selecting (or selected) group of <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23MilitarySpouses\" rel=\"nofollow\">#MilitarySpouses<\/a> , one might think.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least that <i>looked<\/i> like the story. <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/772728\/trump-hosts-military-spouses-prompting-discussion-about-representation\">It turns out<\/a>\u00a0that particular picture was taken back in April, when Ivanka Trump attended the Joint Armed Forces of Washington Luncheon. Which still looks kind of pasty-white and all-female, but is a self-selecting group.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it&#8217;s understandable that there would be confusion, because <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IvankaTrump\/status\/994240405477773314\"><i>Ivanka tweeted it<\/i> yesterday<\/a> in conjunction with the White House event, which was both for Military Spouses and Military Mothers (because Mothers Day, right?). And a closer look from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/994341547574464512\">Melania&#8217;s tweet of the event<\/a>\u00a0does show a <i>few<\/i> faces of color in the audience (though only just a few).<\/p>\n<p>So a mostly-false-alarm, even if the folk up at the podium for the signing of a bill to help military spouses find work again look pretty darned pale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\">+Ken Montville<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s the chance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/105436745732217546126\/albums\/6554318205926047873\/6554318207434579586\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-yq0WAywpo3o\/WvWdrvMDXoI\/AAAAAAAAKlM\/iluRVILR6FoBTr6hF7TueW3irAjju7HhgCJoC\/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-05-11%2Bat%2B7.09.20%2BAM.png?imgmax=660\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/5X66S9VZXY4\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So of the military spouses selected \/ invited \/ accepting the chance to go to the White House, we ended up with practically only white people? A very oddly self-selecting (or selected) group of #MilitarySpouses , one might think. Or at least that looked like the story. It turns out\u00a0that particular picture was taken back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/on-the-diversity-of-military-spouses-and-mothers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Diversity of Military Spouses and Mothers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,349,740,1071],"tags":[1600],"class_list":["post-136410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-military","category-race-racism","category-trump","tag-militaryspouses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen+Shot+2018-05-11+at+7.09.20+AM.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/04\/ivanka-donald-junior-avoided-real-estate-fraud-criminal-indictment.html","url_meta":{"origin":136410,"position":0},"title":"How Ivanka and Donald Junior avoided a real estate fraud criminal indictment","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Oct-17 4:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2012, the two Trump kids were looking at possible New York City felony indictments for fraud around the failing Trump SoHo project. 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