{"id":1512,"date":"2002-04-25T20:21:47","date_gmt":"2002-04-25T20:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2002\/04\/25\/re-stanley-crouch-when-it-comes-to-race-were-all-mixed\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T23:13:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T23:13:25","slug":"re-stanley-crouch-when-it-comes-to-race-were-all-mixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2002\/04\/25\/re-stanley-crouch-when-it-comes-to-race-were-all-mixed\/","title":{"rendered":"re: Stanley Crouch: &#8220;When it comes to race, we&#8217;re all mixed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"CG Times\"><strong>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:21:47 +0000<br \/> To: NY Post Letters<br \/> From: &quot;Valerie Wilkins&quot;<br \/> Subject: re: Stanley Crouch: &quot;When it comes to race, we&#39;re all mixed&quot;<br \/><\/strong> <br \/> NY POST<\/p>\n<p> Letters to the editor:<\/p>\n<p> &quot;When it comes to race, we&#39;re all mixed&quot;, April 2002, commentary by Stanley Crouch, makes the case which I, personally, have begun to become increasingly disturbed by; and I plan to take drastic measures in the very foreseeable future to insure that these bogus claims made are addressed.<\/p>\n<p> After this comment; &quot;&#8230;Ellison&#39;s idea that by blood or culture, whites are part black and Negroes are part white.&quot;, in the literary world, Mr. Crouch states, &quot;That still hasn&#39;t happened.&quot;, is simply misleading. There is a vibrant, growing and politically well-connected &quot;mixed-race&quot; community in America. The literature on this subject is fresh, with depth, and profoundly insightful. I wish people in the media would stop and dig before making such broad and sweeping comments about an entire group of 6.8 million multiracial U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p> Sincerely,<br \/> Valerie A. Wilkins-Godbee<br \/> Pres. of<br \/> Interracial Women&#39;s<br \/> Political Consortium,<br \/> and former deputy chief<br \/> national director of<br \/> A PLACE FOR US\/National,<br \/> a 501 (c) (3) advocacy<br \/> group; est 1984.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:21:47 +0000 To: NY Post Letters From: &quot;Valerie Wilkins&quot; Subject: re: Stanley Crouch: &quot;When it comes to race, we&#39;re all mixed&quot; NY POST Letters to the editor: &quot;When it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":8149,"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":[61,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum","category-valerie-wilkins-godbee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Valerie-Wilkins-Godbee.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-oo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","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\/343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}