{"id":4988,"date":"2004-11-18T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2017-02-25T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T15:11:41","slug":"more-on-re-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/18\/more-on-re-52\/","title":{"rendered":"More on RE-52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/item.aspx?user=mixedmediawatch&amp;tab=weblogs&amp;uid=159248455\">Mixed Media Watch said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I guess you wouldn&#8217;t be happy either, if you proposed something and the only supporter was YOU, yourself!? Check out the plethora of articles out today about the multi-racial check box getting shut DOWN at yesterday&#8217;s UC Regents meeting.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this opposition to the category at work here, or simple hostility towards the man? The caption seems a little over the top. For the record, there was support for this category, but not among the groups who have always opposed allowing &#8220;multiracial&#8221; self-identification. Previous off-record discussions of this classification focused on the fear of a loss in federal dollars by not endorsing the current <em>de facto<\/em> one-drop rule known as &#8220;check all that apply&#8221; (but pretend we aren&#8217;t going to count you as ONE &#8220;race&#8221; only). Prior to the NAACP getting involved, this proposal had enjoyed the support of a majority of the Regents.<\/p>\n<p>See:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/2004-11-16.html\">http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/2004-11-16.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/2004-03-17.html\">http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/2004-03-17.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameslandrith.com\/\">Taking The Gloves Off<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Media Watch said: &#8220;I guess you wouldn&#8217;t be happy either, if you proposed something and the only supporter was YOU, yourself!? Check out the plethora of articles out today about the multi-racial check&#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":true,"_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":true,"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-4988","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-1is","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\/4988","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=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6315,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/6315"}],"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=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}