{"id":1107,"date":"2006-09-24T15:36:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/09\/24\/nice-try-rachel-but-you-were-wrong\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:45:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:45:39","slug":"nice-try-rachel-but-you-were-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/24\/nice-try-rachel-but-you-were-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Try Rachel, But You Were Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>September 24,&nbsp;2006<br \/>The&nbsp;Multiracial Activist&nbsp;<br \/>From the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I was unaware that I had my own &quot;wing&quot; of the multiracial movement.&nbsp; According to Rachel of Rachel&#39;s Tavern (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/<\/a>) in a comment at Mixed Media Watch, I do. Here: (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedmediawatch.com\/2006\/09\/18\/introducing-new-demographics-core-beliefs\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mixedmediawatch.com\/<\/a> ) <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing, I&#39;ve always gotten along with Jen and Carmen and have communicated with both of them privately and publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Rachel didn&#39;t know that when she attempted to play us against each other in her comments at the link above.&nbsp; Rachel&#39;s approach is similar to the &quot;with us or against us&quot; approach favored by the neo-conservatives running the government at present. I have great respect for Swirl and Mixed Media Watch (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedmediawatch.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mixedmediawatch.com<\/a>).&nbsp; I don&#39;t always agree 100% with their take on a given topic, but I&#39;ve never felt antagonistic or as if we are separate &quot;wings.&quot;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We agree far more than we disagree. People really need to stop trying to force their own agendas on others without doing their homework first. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 24,&nbsp;2006The&nbsp;Multiracial Activist&nbsp;From the Editor: I was unaware that I had my own &quot;wing&quot; of the multiracial movement.&nbsp; According to Rachel of Rachel&#39;s Tavern (http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/) in a comment at Mixed Media Watch, I do.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"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":[10,19],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-from-the-editor","tag-james-landrith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-hR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}