{"id":6517,"date":"1999-04-15T18:00:30","date_gmt":"1999-04-15T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2017-03-01T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T10:49:12","slug":"bob-jones-university-apologizes-for-its-racist-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1999\/04\/15\/bob-jones-university-apologizes-for-its-racist-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Jones University Apologizes for Its Racist Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbhe.com\/news_views\/62_bobjones.html\">Bob Jones University Apologizes for Its Racist Past<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lost in the spectacular news accounts of the election of a black man as president of the United States is another event \u2014 this time in higher education \u2014 that stands as a milestone in racial progress.\u00a0 In an eloquent statement, Stephen Jones, great-grandson of the founder and the fourth president of Bob Jones University, has apologized for the institution\u2019s racist past.<\/p>\n<p>President Jones stated, \u201cFor almost two centuries American Christianity, including BJU in its early stages, was characterized by the segregationist ethos of American culture. Consequently, for far too long, we allowed institutional policies regarding race to be shaped more directly by that ethos than by the principles and precepts of the Scriptures. We conformed to the culture rather than provide a clear Christian counterpoint to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn so doing, we failed to accurately represent the Lord and to fulfill the commandment to love others as ourselves. For these failures we are profoundly sorry. Though no known antagonism toward minorities or expressions of racism on a personal level have ever been tolerated on our campus, we allowed institutional policies to remain in place that were racially hurtful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbhe.com\/news_views\/62_bobjones.html\">http:\/\/www.jbhe.com\/news_views\/62_bobjones.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education on &#8220;Bob Jones University Apologizes for Its Racist Past&#8221; Lost in the spectacular news accounts of the election of a black man as president of the United&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"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":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":[141],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-clips","tag-bob-jones-university"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1H7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6518,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions\/6518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}