{"id":5206,"date":"2004-06-24T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2021-06-14T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:51:25","slug":"top-colleges-take-more-blacks-but-which-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/06\/24\/top-colleges-take-more-blacks-but-which-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/24\/education\/24AFFI.final.html\">Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?<\/a><br \/>\nJune 24, 2004<br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nBy SARA RIMER and KAREN W. ARENSON <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the most recent reunion of Harvard University&#8217;s black alumni, there was lots of pleased talk about the increase in the number of black students at Harvard. <\/p>\n<p>But the celebratory mood was broken in one forum, when some speakers brought up the thorny issue of exactly who those black students were. <\/p>\n<p>While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard&#8217;s undergraduates were black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law professor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Harvard&#8217;s African and African-American studies department, pointed out that the majority of them &#8211; perhaps as many as two-thirds &#8211; were West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial<br \/>\ncouples.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lani Guinier and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. bear some responsibility for the situation they decry.  Have they not promoted the racist and ridiculous myth that anyone with &#8220;black blood&#8221; is black (with the exception of Latinos and Arabs, allies they dare not offend)?   Witness Gates&#8217; &#8220;racial kidnapping&#8221; and &#8220;ethnic rape&#8221; of the late mixed white Creole (NOT &#8220;black&#8221;) Anatole Broyard.  Guinier is the biracial daughter of a white Jewish woman, yet she presents herself to the public as a pure &#8220;black.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones? June 24, 2004 The New York Times By SARA RIMER and KAREN W. ARENSON At the most recent reunion of Harvard University&#8217;s black alumni, there was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"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":[63,141],"tags":[127,213],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity","tag-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1lY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}