{"id":4825,"date":"2003-06-06T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:31:51","slug":"ward-connerly-on-brokaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/06\/06\/ward-connerly-on-brokaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward Connerly on Brokaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, fellow &#8220;racial&#8221; classifications abolitionist Ward Connerly will appear on Tom Brokaw Reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ward Connerly was interviewed after the University of Michigan oral arguments. Some of his comments will be included in the following broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, JUNE 6 &#8211; 8:00 PM ET<br \/>\nAffirmative Action (special time)<br \/>\nLater this month, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to deliver one of its most important rulings in years and the decision could have a profound effect on race relations for generations to come. At stake in the debate is the future of affirmative action programs around the nation. In a NBC special, \u201cTom Brokaw Reports: A Question of Fairness,\u201d Tom Brokaw looks at the issue of affirmative action through the upcoming Supreme Court case involving the University of Michigan. The hour-long report centers on the fundamental issue of fairness and examines how we as a nation attempt to remedy the historic mistreatment of deserving African-Americans, without punishing deserving white Americans today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Link courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acri.org\">ACRI staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, fellow &#8220;racial&#8221; classifications abolitionist Ward Connerly will appear on Tom Brokaw Reports. Ward Connerly was interviewed after the University of Michigan oral arguments. Some of his comments will be included in the&#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-4825","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-1fP","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\/4825","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=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7546,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions\/7546"}],"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=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}