{"id":5413,"date":"2005-06-02T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:41","slug":"the-guess-my-race-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/02\/the-guess-my-race-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Guess My Race&#8221; Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/race\/002_SortingPeople\/002_00-home.htm\">silly &#8220;Guess My Race&#8221; game<\/a> fails to point out that the racial classification system is illogical. The public is also entitled to know that the very white women who classified themselves as &#8220;black&#8221; (Claiming African ancestry with only &#8220;traces&#8221; of European and Native American, what nonsense!) have probably been reared to believe that they are not good enough to claim any ancestry but &#8220;black.&#8221; The public should have been informed that people with the same or more African ancestry can be classified as &#8220;white&#8221; or otherwise nonblack.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;game&#8221; also attempts to fool the public by pretending that &#8220;Hispanic\/Latino&#8221; is a census racial classification. They do not tell us that these Latinos probably classified themselves as either &#8220;white&#8221; or &#8220;Other&#8221; on the Census.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Asian&#8221; category is also far too vague to make much sense.<\/p>\n<p>They used people who looked reasonably &#8220;Native American&#8221; for that category, but failed to point out all the white-looking and even a few black-looking people who are enrolled members of Indian tribes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This silly &#8220;Guess My Race&#8221; game fails to point out that the racial classification system is illogical. The public is also entitled to know that the very white women who classified themselves as &#8220;black&#8221;&#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":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":[10,63],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1pj","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\/5413","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=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5524,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/5524"}],"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=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}