{"id":8709,"date":"2004-12-29T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T16:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8709"},"modified":"2021-11-03T05:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:43:40","slug":"checking-race-in-2010-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/29\/checking-race-in-2010-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking race in 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current check-all-that-apply scheme allows government agencies to count someone who checks, say, both the white and the black box solely as black. As Naomi Zack wrote in &#8220;American Mixed Race: The U.S. 2000 Census and Related Issues&#8221; this is America&#8217;s new one-drop rule. That said, whether you consider yourself multiracial or no, would you seriously consider not checking the race and ethnicity boxes come the next census &#8212; especially if the law prohibited a government bureaucrat from allocating your questionnaire to a racial category?<\/p>\n<p>Take the Interracial Voice Poll at: <a href=\"http:\/\/interracialvoice.com\/polls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/interracialvoice.com\/polls.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;2004-12-29 16:16:00&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:14849,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:1},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Calibri, sans-serif&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:12}\">2004-12-29 16:16:00<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current check-all-that-apply scheme allows government agencies to count someone who checks, say, both the white and the black box solely as black. As Naomi Zack wrote in &#8220;American Mixed Race: The U.S. 2000&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":8655,"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":[222,61],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-8709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-michael-byrd","category-reader-forum","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-2gt","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Forum-Posts.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709","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\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8710,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions\/8710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}