{"id":998,"date":"2005-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2005\/09\/26\/the-race-canard\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:48:56","slug":"the-race-canard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/26\/the-race-canard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Race Canard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Race Canard<br \/> U.S. News and World Report<br \/> by John Leo<br \/> September 26, 2005<\/p>\n<p>A letter to the editor of the Oregonian, in Portland, Ore., said of Katrina: &#8220;I am deeply disturbed and angered by the number of reports claiming racism has something to do with the delay in the relief effort. These claims are unsubstantiated and a complete lie. To even suggest that our government would allow people to die simply because of the color of their skin is despicable. &#8230; In a time of national crisis, another media-driven race war is the last thing this country needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/opinion\/articles\/050926\/26john.htm\">http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/opinion\/articles\/050926\/26john.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Race Canard U.S. News and World Report by John Leo September 26, 2005 A letter to the editor of the Oregonian, in Portland, Ore., said of Katrina: &#8220;I am deeply disturbed and angered&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"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":[10,141],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-g6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}