{"id":1429,"date":"1999-07-28T23:53:32","date_gmt":"1999-07-28T23:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1999\/07\/28\/letter-to-the-editor-27\/"},"modified":"2021-07-04T06:42:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T06:42:50","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1999\/07\/28\/letter-to-the-editor-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:53:32 -0700 (PDT)<br \/>From: George Winkel<br \/>Subject: Letter to the Editor<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Newsweek Magazine for getting it right. In an article for the week of<br \/>August 2, 1999 in an article entitled &quot;Affirmative Action Face-Off&quot; (p. 58), by<br \/>Tampa Fla. staff writer, Adam Cohen, reviews the progress of Ward Connerly&#39;s<br \/>anti-affirmative-action referendum, gathering signatures in Florida. In the<br \/>article Cohen identifies Connerly as &quot;the contraversial <em>mixed-race<br \/>businessman<\/em> who got similar masures passed in California in 1996 and in<br \/>Washington State last year.&quot; (<em>Id.<\/em>, my added italics.) Dare we hope the<br \/>word last is getting around that the One-Drop Rule is out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:53:32 -0700 (PDT)From: George WinkelSubject: Letter to the Editor Kudos to Newsweek Magazine for getting it right. In an article for the week ofAugust 2, 1999 in an article&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":7987,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[223,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-george-winkel","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-n3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","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\/347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}