{"id":891,"date":"1998-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-10-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1998\/10\/20\/bju-application\/"},"modified":"2017-02-27T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:17:36","slug":"bju-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1998\/10\/20\/bju-application\/","title":{"rendered":"BJU Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 20, 1998<br \/>\nThe Multiracial Activist<br \/>\nFrom The Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As an experiment, I recently applied for admission as a student to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bju.edu\">Bob Jones University<\/a>. Curiously enough, the online application asks for the race of the applicant and of the applicant&#8217;s spouse. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interracialvoice.com\">INTERRACIAL VOICE&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\">The Multiracial Activist&#8217;s<\/a> readers know, Bob Jones University does not permit interracial dating between students. But they do take the tax money of interracial couples in the form of state aid to the (private) university. Their response is available online at The Multiracial Activist at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/bjuapplication.html\">http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/bjuapplication.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yours in Struggle,<\/p>\n<p>James A. Landrith, Jr.<br \/>\nEditor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\">The Multiracial Activist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> historical_pacman_victory has an interesting post on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/item.aspx?user=historical_pacman_victory&amp;tab=weblogs&amp;uid=77606683\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 20, 1998 The Multiracial Activist From The Editor: As an experiment, I recently applied for admission as a student to Bob Jones University. Curiously enough, the online application asks for the race of&#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":[139,154,102],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-from-the-editor","tag-bob-jones-university","tag-interracial-relationships","tag-james-landrith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-en","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\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6446,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/6446"}],"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=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}