{"id":5316,"date":"2004-07-30T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2021-06-29T03:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T03:42:45","slug":"how-answering-governments-racial-ethnic-questions-can-harm-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/30\/how-answering-governments-racial-ethnic-questions-can-harm-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How Answering Government&#8217;s Racial\/Ethnic Questions Can Harm You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/07\/30\/politics\/30census.html\">Homeland Security Given Data on Arab-Americans<\/a><br \/>\nThe  New York Times<br \/>\nJuly 30, 2004<br \/>\nBy LYNETTE CLEMETSON<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, July 29 &#8211; The Census Bureau has provided specially tabulated population statistics on Arab-Americans to the Department of Homeland Security, including detailed information on how many people of Arab backgrounds live in certain ZIP codes.<\/p>\n<p>The assistance is legal, but civil liberties groups and Arab-American advocacy organizations say it is a dangerous breach of public trust and liken it to the Census Bureau&#8217;s compilation of similar information about Japanese-Americans during World War II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security Given Data on Arab-Americans The New York Times July 30, 2004 By LYNETTE CLEMETSON WASHINGTON, July 29 &#8211; The Census Bureau has provided specially tabulated population statistics on Arab-Americans to the Department&#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":[126,128],"class_list":["post-5316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications","tag-civil-liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nK","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\/5316","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=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7764,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions\/7764"}],"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=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}