{"id":4800,"date":"2003-04-04T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-04T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:44:34","slug":"youve-got-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/04\/04\/youve-got-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Got Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.blogspot.com\/2003_03_30_volokh_archive.html#200055204\">Eugene Volokh<\/a> has revealed an insteresting newspaper correction from 1990:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the Fresno Bee, July 21, 1990: An item in Thursday&#8217;s Nation Digest about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that<br \/>\nwill help put Massachusetts &#8220;back in the African-American.&#8221; The item<br \/>\nshould have said &#8220;back in the black.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Deciding to do a little digging I found out that according to the AFU &#038; Urban Legends Archive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanlegends.com\/language\/back_in_the_african_american.html\">this really happened<\/a>, but was a prank, not a case of political correctness run amuck, as one might easily assume.<\/p>\n<p>Story courtesy of Gary Imhoff via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcwatch.com\/iilist\/\">II-List<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Volokh has revealed an insteresting newspaper correction from 1990: From the Fresno Bee, July 21, 1990: An item in Thursday&#8217;s Nation Digest about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that&#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":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1fq","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\/4800","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=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7561,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/7561"}],"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=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}