{"id":4817,"date":"2003-05-13T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:34:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:34:38","slug":"diversity-without-pandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/05\/13\/diversity-without-pandering\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Without Pandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Bronson, who has written in the past for The Multiracial Activist and The Abolitionist Examiner,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishouldstudymore.net\/shr\/archives\/000066.html\"> weighs in on diversity and Jayson Blair in The Schoolhouse Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Diversity needs to be less about filling quotas or sprinkling our lives with a little color for good measure. Diversity is not a tan that you get in the summertime, to keep from being too pale. It\u2019s about people\u2019s lives and about opportunity. Talented individuals come in all shapes, sizes and <i>colors<\/i>. We all have a responsibility to think outside of the box and to recognize achievement that pushes the envelope and that challenges our conceptions of what excellence is <i>supposed<\/i> to look like. However, such vigilance does not give us the right to apply standards unfairly on those who we root for, like we cheer on our favorite athletes. By applying the same rigorous standards and seeing them succeed \u2013 that rising to the occasion that personifies excellence in its highest measure \u2013 is the sweetest victory of all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well said Ron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Bronson, who has written in the past for The Multiracial Activist and The Abolitionist Examiner, weighs in on diversity and Jayson Blair in The Schoolhouse Review: Diversity needs to be less about filling&#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":[127],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1fH","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\/4817","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=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7549,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/7549"}],"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=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}