{"id":5213,"date":"2004-06-25T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2021-06-13T21:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T21:05:52","slug":"state-youre-no-longer-hispanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/06\/25\/state-youre-no-longer-hispanic\/","title":{"rendered":"State: You&#8217;re no longer Hispanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/poststandard\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-17\/108711577537633.xml\">State: You&#8217;re no longer Hispanic<\/a>: Definition excludes people from Spain; established local contractor pays the price.<br \/>\nThe Syracuse Post-Standard<br \/>\nSunday, June 13, 2004<br \/>\nBy John O&#8217;Brien<br \/>\nStaff writer <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New York state officials recognized Rocco Luiere as Hispanic for 15 years. <\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the state says he&#8217;s not &#8211; at least not under its definition for minority businesses. <\/p>\n<p>His maternal grandparents were born in Spain, which would meet most dictionary definitions for Hispanic meaning Spanish or Spanish and Portuguese. <\/p>\n<p>The federal government considers him Hispanic. <\/p>\n<p>But he doesn&#8217;t meet New York state&#8217;s definition, so in April the state revoked his minority business enterprise certification for his Cazenovia road construction company, Jana-Rock Construction Inc. <\/p>\n<p>Luiere says he has to lay off up to one-third of his workers and has already sold 30 percent of his equipment. He&#8217;ll stay in business without the minority business certification, but on a smaller scale, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State: You&#8217;re no longer Hispanic: Definition excludes people from Spain; established local contractor pays the price. The Syracuse Post-Standard Sunday, June 13, 2004 By John O&#8217;Brien Staff writer New York state officials recognized Rocco&#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":[126],"class_list":["post-5213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1m5","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\/5213","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=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7296,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions\/7296"}],"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=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}