{"id":5000,"date":"2004-12-15T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2016-12-21T17:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:18:57","slug":"number-crunching-in-cali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/15\/number-crunching-in-cali\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Crunching in Cali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Christian of the Daily Californian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/article.php?id=17242\">adds her perspective<\/a> to the recent &#8220;multiracial&#8221; category issue with the University of California Board of Regents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve learned that \u201cunderrepresented,\u201d the word bandied around like there\u2019s no tomorrow on this campus, is being used incorrectly. If BAMN and its ilk are going to exploit it as a justification for affirmative action, they should know that their favorite word to rattle off is inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>Yvette Felarca, Northern California\u2019s BAMN coordinator, said the UC Regents\u2019 idea to create a multiracial check box on its admissions applications \u201cdenies students and the population at large the right to hold UC accountable to ensuring that we have an actual representative student body that reflects our state\u2019s population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK, so BAMN\u2019s goal is to have UC\u2019s student population reflect the state\u2019s in terms of race. Let\u2019s take a look at the statistics. According to the U.S. Census, 46 percent of California\u2019s population is white. According to UC Berkeley, the student body is 35 percent white. Looks like whites are also underrepresented: to represent the state, 11 percent more of our students should be white. Since BAMN is trying to bring more blacks, Hispanics and American Indians to school here, why not add whites to the mix?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/article.php?id=17242\">here<\/a>. This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameslandrith.com\/\">Taking The Gloves Off<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Christian of the Daily Californian adds her perspective to the recent &#8220;multiracial&#8221; category issue with the University of California Board of Regents: I\u2019ve learned that \u201cunderrepresented,\u201d the word bandied around like there\u2019s no&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4352,"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":[10,19,21,141],"tags":[127,121],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","category-news-clips","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1iE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","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=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5656,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}