{"id":7665,"date":"2003-06-04T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2021-06-29T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T00:26:03","slug":"categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/06\/04\/categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: Wed, June 4, 2003 3:53 am<br>From: Bernard Glass<br>Subject: Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To Susan Graham, James Landrith Jr. and Charles Michael Byrd:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of you feel that racial classifications should be completely erased because they cause racial division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Racial tension comes from what people feel in their hearts and minds. Getting ridding of categories is not going to bring an end to that. Plus I see nothing wrong with trying to find out how diverse a school or workplace is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do feel that the multiracial category added to the census, college applications, job applications and anywhere else that the forms ask for a person\u2019s racial identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I would like to know how a school or job place is supposed to know just how diverse it has become without people identifying their race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I marry a woman in my racial group and have a child, I would like to know how diverse the school is and how many children of my child\u2019s race is attending the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again I feel that a multiracial category should be added on all forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the direction I feel that the movement should take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bernard Glass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">P.S. Hi, James! It\u2019s me again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wed, June 4, 2003 3:53 amFrom: Bernard GlassSubject: Categories To Susan Graham, James Landrith Jr. and Charles Michael Byrd: All of you feel that racial classifications should be completely erased because they cause&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"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":[61],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-7665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1ZD","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665","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\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7666,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions\/7666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}