{"id":5331,"date":"2004-08-10T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T10:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2021-06-10T03:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T03:37:33","slug":"the-white-palestinian-and-the-black-brazilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/10\/the-white-palestinian-and-the-black-brazilian\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;White&#8221; Palestinian and the &#8220;Black&#8221; Brazilian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the pictures of the Palestinian and the Brazilian.  The U.S. Government would say that the Palestinian is &#8220;white&#8221; simply because she comes from the Middle East.  All people from the Middle East are &#8220;Caucasians&#8221; according to affirmative action rules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/08\/sports\/olympics\/08bkheet.html\">No Track, No Recognized Country, One Pair of Shoes<\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nAugust 8, 2004<br \/>\nBy GREG MYRE <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sanaa Abu Bkheet, who was once the target of ridicule, heads to Athens to compete in the 800 meters as one of just two Palestinian Olympians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/08\/sports\/olympics\/08santos.html\">A Nation&#8217;s Hope Rises Out of Nowhere<\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nAugust 8, 2004<br \/>\nBy LARRY ROHTER <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She has the diminutive height of a jockey, but other than that, not much about Daiane dos Santos of Brazil fits the profile of a world-champion gymnast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the pictures of the Palestinian and the Brazilian. The U.S. Government would say that the Palestinian is &#8220;white&#8221; simply because she comes from the Middle East. All people from the Middle East&#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":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nZ","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\/5331","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=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7073,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions\/7073"}],"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=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}