{"id":29065,"date":"2013-02-24T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29065"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:38:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:38:50","slug":"the-negro-need-have-no-objection-to-absolutely-prohibitive-laws-against-miscegenation-as-they-would-give-him-a-far-wider-range-of-matrimonial-choice-than-any-other-race-on-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29065","title":{"rendered":"the Negro need have no objection to absolutely prohibitive laws against miscegenation, as they would give him a far wider range of matrimonial choice than any other race on earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He [John C. Minkins] said the Negro need have no objection to absolutely prohibitive laws against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">miscegenation<\/a>, as they would give him a far wider range of matrimonial choice than any other race on earth, since he could have all the thirty-second degree Negroes and more than 1,100,000 others, ranging from half white to thirty-one thirty-seconds white, from which to choose, adding, \u201cThe range is wide enough and attractive enough to satisfy the most adventurous and exacting among us.\u201d He was not disposed to be disturbed by legitimate miscegenation and its ultimate effects, as they would take care of themselves as they had done ever since the present European Caucasian races sprang from the Negro\u2019s ancestors, the Euro-Africans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=29041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John C. Minkins on Race Purity<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Indianapolis Recorder: A Weekly Newspaper Devoted the to Best Interest of the Negroes<\/em> (May 7, 1910), page 1, columns 4-5. <a href=\"http:\/\/indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu\/cdm\/compoundobject\/collection\/IRecorder\/id\/18654\/rec\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu\/cdm\/compoundobject\/collection\/IRecorder\/id\/18654\/rec\/1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He [John C. Minkins] said the Negro need have no objection to absolutely prohibitive laws against miscegenation, as they would give him a far wider range of matrimonial choice than any other race on earth, since he could have all the thirty-second degree Negroes and more than 1,100,000 others, ranging from half white to thirty-one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13767,13774,29735,13766],"class_list":["post-29065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-john-c-minkins","tag-john-c-minkins-on-race-purity","tag-john-carter-minkins","tag-the-indianapolis-recorder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54168,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29065\/revisions\/54168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}