{"id":7973,"date":"2001-05-20T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-20T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2021-07-04T06:42:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T06:42:49","slug":"lte-congratulations-tomorrows-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2001\/05\/20\/lte-congratulations-tomorrows-children\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE: Congratulations Tomorrow’s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:36:18 -0700
From: \u201cGeorge Winkel\u201d
Subject: Letter to the editor re Congratulations tomorrows children<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Francis Wardle, Ph.D., has written a thrilling progress report for the\u00a0New People Interracial e-Magazine<\/a>, published by Yvette and Daniel Hollis. Dr. Wardle exclaims,\u00a0\u201cWe win! We win! We win!!!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0The new census 2000 count of people who selected more than one racial or ethnic category (6.83 million people = 2.42% of American respondents) make the multiracial community a real winner, he explains.\u00a0It’s inaccurate, unduly small now.<\/a>\u00a0But it means that finally we’re squarely in the myopic media’s view – broadcasts and newspaper pictures showing pie-charts with thin slivers labeled \u201cMultiracial.\u201d The\u00a0word<\/em>\u00a0is out there! Dr. Wardle notes,\u00a0\u201cInterestingly this new information about mixed race identities has also prompted the media to examine the entire construct of race and ethnicity.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And things are starting to turn, he reports, now that interracial parents at last have Government on their side confronting the \u201ccheck one\u201d oligarchs (e.g., those school officials:\u00a0\u201cPick one [race\/ethnicity] \u2026. Why are you so uptight about your child\u2019s identity?\u201d<\/em>). Pundits who couldn’t be stirred before are starting to sit up. Formerly obstructionist multicultural \u201celite\u201d are pompously starting to claim credit!\u00a0\u201c([T]hey don\u2019t believe any positive societal change can occur without their leadership).\u201d<\/em>\u00a0;~)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Dr. Wardle gives credit where it’s due: To multiracial children, adults and their interracial parents all across the land who fought with administrators, simply refusing to accept the government\u2019s labels; to the internet, which gave us a way of coming together and circumventing the academic \u201cgatekeepers\u201d at media bottlenecks; and last but not least to the courageous hard working advocates who went to Washington and pressed for census change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Wardle describes, too, this amazing societal revolution’s wondrously swooping up under the radar of conventional politicking. He says we are\u00a0\u201cone of the truest examples of a grass-roots movement\u201d<\/em>\u00a0– no funding, media support, or political leaders – not even agreeing on our agenda except our demand to be recognized. Academics, he says, already are analyzing and\u00a0\u201cdeconstructing\u201d<\/em>\u00a0our multiracial movement, trying to comprehend how this happened. You don’t want to miss Dr. Wardle’s report, and enjoy feeling a part of it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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