{"id":4545,"date":"2001-02-21T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-21T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2021-06-13T18:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:59:48","slug":"interview-the-desert-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2001\/02\/21\/interview-the-desert-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview &#8211; The Desert Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was interviewed today by a reporter for The Desert Sun, out of Palm Springs, CA.  Interview lasted about 35 minutes.  I had a few choice words regarding the NAACP, the Democratic Party and the so-called leadership of the &#8220;multiracial&#8221; community.  I discussed the NAACP endorsement of one-drop, the Democratic Party&#8217;s unwillingness to support multiracial identity and how AMEA and Project RACE are not to be expected to achieve a census multiracial category because AMEA is scared of the NAACP and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrace.com\">Project RACE&#8217;s<\/a> philosophy is &#8220;stand alone category or die.&#8221;  I then informed her of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialprivacy.org\">ACRI&#8217;s new initiative<\/a> to ban racial data collection in California.  She will be contacting ACRI for further comments.  The first in a series of articles will run on Friday at thedesertsun.com<\/p>\n<p>She expressed frustration at how none of the &#8220;official&#8221; organizations would honestly answer her questions and was pleased to talk to someone willing to be blunt.  I expressed my support for abolishing categories and mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interracialvoice.com\">INTERRACIAL VOICE<\/a> as working towards a world free of racial categorization as well.  I emphasized that racial categorization creates racism.  I made the point that trying to use &#8220;racial categorization&#8221; to deal with racism is the equivalent of putting &#8220;band-aids on gunshot wounds&#8221; and that it&#8217;s time to deal with the source of racism &#8211; racial categorization.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how the story comes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interviewed today by a reporter for The Desert Sun, out of Palm Springs, CA. Interview lasted about 35 minutes. I had a few choice words regarding the NAACP, the Democratic Party and&#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":false,"_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":[19,21],"tags":[121,210],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-biracial-and-multiracial","tag-media-coverage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1bj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","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=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7271,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/7271"}],"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=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}