{"id":1570,"date":"2007-10-23T21:18:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/10\/23\/mentioned-by-dnc-again\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:45:38","slug":"mentioned-by-dnc-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/23\/mentioned-by-dnc-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentioned by DNC (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I wanted to comment on this as it will be mentioned over and over again by the Democratic National Committee (as it was 4 years ago and in elections prior). <\/p>\n<p>In 1998, I contacted Bob Jones University regarding their anti-miscegenationist dating\/marriage policy.&nbsp; I received a letter from BJU, which I promptly posted online here:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/content\/view\/1023\/49\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/multiracial.com\/site\/content\/view\/1023\/49\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Then, being the agitator I am, I decided to test their policy and applied for admission &#8211; with no intention of attending.&nbsp; Their online application actually asked for both the race of a student AND spouse.&nbsp; I dutifully filled in such data, as the experiment would not work if I didn&#39;t.&nbsp; I received the following response:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/content\/view\/1024\/49\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/multiracial.com\/site\/content\/view\/1024\/49\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p> After posting this online, it was picked up by NPR, LA Times, several wire services and was mentioned in a dozen or so books &#8211; and even in testimony by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (<a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.senate.gov\/oldsite\/te011601sjl.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/judiciary.senate.gov\/oldsite\/te011601sjl.htm<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p> As has been the case in the past, the rotten affair is renewed with each election cycle: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/a\/2007\/10\/romney_doesnt_g.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/a\/2007\/10\/romney_doesnt_g.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/a\/2007\/10\/is_romney_reall.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/a\/2007\/10\/is_romney_reall.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"%20%20%20%20*%20http:\/\/weblogs.chicagotribune.com\/news\/politics\/blog\/2007\/10\/bob_jones_university_dean_warm.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/weblogs.chicagotribune.com\/news\/politics\/blog\/2007\/10\/bob_jones_university_dean_warm.html<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#39;t endorse the sabre-rattling, can&#39;t make a decent retraction of her prior support for big-ass wars Senator from New York, I won&#39;t be losing sleep if the Freshmen Senator from Illinois wins the nomination.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> I granted Vice President Gore&#39;s campaign permission to use the letters and my name in their PR during his campaign against Gov. Bush, and eventually the DNC started to do so as well &#8211; which is fine.&nbsp; But, my permission to use said materials does not constitute an endorsement of certain people either.&nbsp; It is merely factual &#8211; and this issue has no legs if idiots like Romney stop kissing the ring at BJU.&nbsp; Further, as an agnostic heathen and long-time nonconformist, and in the interest of full disclosure &#8211; I had zero intention of attending BJU.&nbsp; I did, however, intend to cause mischief and create awareness. <\/p>\n<p> Mischief managed. <\/p>\n<p> P.S. &#8211; I spelled it out in greater detail in 2004.&nbsp; See:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/jameslandrith.com\/content\/view\/2257\/79\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jameslandrith.com\/content\/view\/2257\/79\/&nbsp;<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to comment on this as it will be mentioned over and over again by the Democratic National Committee (as it was 4 years ago and in elections prior). 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