{"id":4806,"date":"2003-04-30T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-30T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:43:12","slug":"false-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/04\/30\/false-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"False Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aacia Hussain of the Northern Star on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star.niu.edu\/campus\/articles\/041803-race.asp\">Interracial dating: Controversy?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are many things which cause us to stop what we\u2019re doing and stare \u2013 a car accident, a fight or maybe a fire. <\/p>\n<p>What about two people holding hands walking down the street? <\/p>\n<p>Your first inclination may be to say no, but some think that if one of the people was a different race than the other, it would cause heads to turn. <\/p>\n<p>The issue of concern here is interracial dating. The subject has caused much controversy during the past few decades and continues to stir up mixed opinions at NIU. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only controversy I can see is why any adult would give a damn about the opinions of those who can&#8217;t see past skin color.  Come on folks, if a third party tells you that you can&#8217;t be with someone based on melanin content, that person is a raving jackass and not worthy of your time or consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aacia Hussain of the Northern Star on Interracial dating: Controversy?: There are many things which cause us to stop what we\u2019re doing and stare \u2013 a car accident, a fight or maybe a fire.&#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":[154],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-interracial-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1fw","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\/4806","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=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7559,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/7559"}],"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=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}