{"id":888,"date":"1998-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-08-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1998\/08\/18\/multiracial-identity\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:47:27","slug":"multiracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1998\/08\/18\/multiracial-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 18, 1998<br \/>The Multiracial Activist<br \/>From The Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From a usenet posting on dejanews.members.misc.snowrose1.multirace, snowrose1 asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am curious as to the opinion of the American population. My daughter is biracial and would like not to be known as black or white but both. I believe it is her right to be able to identify with both races if she so chooses. This is not the cases with the census at this time. I realize that changes are being made on the new forms, but what changes are being made for the tabulations. Can we really get a clear account of the true make up of the american population?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tabulation scheme is still being drafted although it will probably include some form of the one-drop rule. In other words, your child&#39;s multiple checked boxes will be substituted for one box. The Census Bureau has not formally announced this, but it fully intends to one-drop multiracials. This is fraud and also illegal, but condoned by this Administration which does exactly what the NAACP and other so-called civil rights groups tell them to. I have bookmarked this list and will post an announcement when the tabulation scheme is formally announced. For now, I would recommend writing to your Member of Congress and Senators and tell them to make the Census Bureau count your child correctly instead of using her as a political tool for special interest groups who don&#39;t care about her.<\/p>\n<p>Your in Struggle,<\/p>\n<p>James A. Landrith, Jr.<br \/>Editor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/\">The Multiracial Activist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 18, 1998The Multiracial ActivistFrom The Editor: From a usenet posting on dejanews.members.misc.snowrose1.multirace, snowrose1 asks: I am curious as to the opinion of the American population. My daughter is biracial and would like not&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[10,19],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-from-the-editor","tag-james-landrith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-ek","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}