{"id":8139,"date":"2000-03-05T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2000-03-05T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8139"},"modified":"2021-07-02T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T18:30:33","slug":"lte-race-and-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2000\/03\/05\/lte-race-and-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE: Race and Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 03:58:09 -0800 (PST)<br>From: <a href=\"mailto:9to5@justice.com\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:9to5@justice.com\">K.<\/a><br>Subject: Letter to the Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I noticed the other day in Beau Bonneau Casting (84 First Street, San Francisco, CA) that on its talent database, it requests an actor&#8217;s ethnicity\/ies. One of the choices is &#8220;mulatto&#8221;. Besides the obvious problem of a potential employer essentially asking those EEOC no-no questions, haven&#8217;t we moved on from a word derived from the Spanish word for mule?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an actor, I must find indirect ways to protest this act (or lose any chance of employment). Are there connections in the Bay Area that I might go to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 03:58:09 -0800 (PST)From: K.Subject: Letter to the Editor I noticed the other day in Beau Bonneau Casting (84 First Street, San Francisco, CA) that on its talent database, it&#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":[],"class_list":["post-8139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-27h","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\/8139","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=8139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8140,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions\/8140"}],"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=8139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}