{"id":1069,"date":"1999-04-18T20:29:54","date_gmt":"1999-04-18T20:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1999\/04\/18\/victims-in-the-war-back-home\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T22:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:01:29","slug":"victims-in-the-war-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1999\/04\/18\/victims-in-the-war-back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims in the War Back Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syndicated columnist Clarence Page makes this report in his <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/page\/0,1122,SAV-9904180277,00.html\">column of April 18<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;(U.S. Attorney General Janet) Reno endorsed legislation proposed by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich) to require all police to record the race, among other characteristics, of every person they stop on the highway.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We tend to forgot that Americans are &#8220;raced&#8221; in all aspects of our criminal justice system. Any encounter with the police, whether as victim, accused or witness, involves a &#8220;racial&#8221; description of you in their reports. Don&#8217;t expect that they will bother to ask you what description you prefer, if any. Don&#8217;t expect them to respect &#8220;mixed race&#8221; identities. People who claim to be fighting racism, such as Janet Reno and John Conyers, don&#8217;t think about or respect mixed identities, so why should cops?<\/p>\n<p>Does it ever occur to liberals like Reno and Conyers that &#8220;racial profiling&#8221; cannot be fought by MORE forced participation in this country&#8217;s idiotic &#8220;racial&#8221; classification scheme?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syndicated columnist Clarence Page makes this report in his column of April 18: &#8220;(U.S. Attorney General Janet) Reno endorsed legislation proposed by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich) to require all police to record the race,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,63,141],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-crime-and-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-hf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}