{"id":4781,"date":"2003-01-22T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-22T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2021-06-14T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:24:15","slug":"up-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/01\/22\/up-is-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Up is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nysun.com\/sunarticle.asp?artID=490\">Senator Clinton shows us how<\/a> to completely disrespect a legacy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are reminded once again by the events of the last year that there are those who don\u2019t understand Dr. King\u2019s dream and legacy,\u201d Mrs. Clinton said. \u201cYes, we want to be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. But what makes up character?\u201d she said, quoting from Dr. King\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech. \u201cIf we don\u2019t take race as part of our character, then we are kidding ourselves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It goes with out saying that King&#8217;s call for colorblindness is the opposite of Clinton&#8217;s message of &#8220;racial&#8221; hypersensitivity.  I would have thought her handlers smart enough to prevent such a serious breach of logic from entering public record.  But liberals will rush to defend her ridiculous and sorry remarks.  These are the same liberals who stand on the sidelines when &#8220;diversity&#8221; experts openly espouse self-segregation and promote hideous concepts like the one-drop rule.  What a disgusting, thinly veiled perversion of King&#8217;s legacy.  This is inexcusable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Clinton shows us how to completely disrespect a legacy: \u201cWe are reminded once again by the events of the last year that there are those who don\u2019t understand Dr. King\u2019s dream and legacy,\u201d&#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":[126,197],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-racial-classifications","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1f7","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\/4781","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=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7517,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/7517"}],"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=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}