{"id":4953,"date":"2004-07-23T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:27:26","slug":"repeal-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/23\/repeal-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeal It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/news\/07092004\/south_of\/25801.htm\">American Indians want law repeal<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jennifer Peter<br \/>\nAssociated Press<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As city leaders work to burnish the shine on the &#8220;new Boston&#8221; for this month\u2019s Democratic National Convention, a group of northeastern Native American tribes is calling on the state to formally repeal a very &#8220;old Boston&#8221; anti-Indian law.<\/p>\n<p>Passed in 1675 during King Philip\u2019s War and never formally wiped from the books, the Boston Indian Imprisonment Act orders the arrest of all American Indians entering the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Repeal the damn law already, how difficult can it be?  This is yet another example of the real purpose behind government imposed &#8220;racial&#8221; classifications.  Folks, these classifications weren&#8217;t invented for the enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  They were invented centuries earlier for purposes such as those outlined in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/news\/07092004\/south_of\/25801.htm\">this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Indians want law repeal By Jennifer Peter Associated Press As city leaders work to burnish the shine on the &#8220;new Boston&#8221; for this month\u2019s Democratic National Convention, a group of northeastern Native American&#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],"class_list":["post-4953","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"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1hT","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\/4953","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=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7426,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/7426"}],"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=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}