{"id":4489,"date":"2000-02-28T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2000-02-28T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2016-12-24T23:28:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T23:28:53","slug":"the-city-on-a-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2000\/02\/28\/the-city-on-a-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"The City on a Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke with this reporter last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation\/20000227\/t000018863.html\">regarding this story<\/a>. I&#8217;m glad he quoted their so-called rationale for their ban on interracial dating. I continually receive email from people who don&#8217;t realize that this type of activity still occurs. BJU&#8217;s &#8220;rationale&#8221; brings to mind &#8216;black helicopter&#8217; theories and the like. The complete copy of their letter, part of this story was based on as well as other stories and links concerning BJU is available at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/issues\/issues-bobjonesuniversity.html\">http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/issues\/issues-bobjonesuniversity.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, The State in Columbia, South Carolina just ran a story on BJU as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/headlines\/a1docs\/aaron_bobjones27.htm\">http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/headlines\/a1docs\/aaron_bobjones27.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcwatch.com\/iilist\/\">II-List<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke with this reporter last week regarding this story. I&#8217;m glad he quoted their so-called rationale for their ban on interracial dating. I continually receive email from people who don&#8217;t realize that this&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,19,21],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-bob-jones-university"],"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-1ap","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","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=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/5730"}],"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=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}