{"id":42414,"date":"2015-08-26T23:31:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42414"},"modified":"2015-08-26T23:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:31:47","slug":"the-race-draft-fails-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42414","title":{"rendered":"The Race Draft Fails, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Race Draft Fails, Again<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ebony<\/a>
\n2015-08-26<\/p>\n

Damon Young<\/strong><\/a>, Writer<\/p>\n

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\n(left) Barack Obama<\/a>, Mariah Carey<\/a> and Shawn King<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Damon Young says a recent campaign questioning Shaun King’s<\/a> ethnicity is the latest in a string of attempts to take good Blacks out the gene pool<\/em><\/p>\n

We should have seen it coming. All the signs were there. But they fooled us. Bamboozled<\/a> us. Led us astray. And now it might be too late.<\/p>\n

It started back in 2008, when birthers<\/a> were so hell-bent on seeing then-Senator Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> birth certificate. They said it was to check his citizenship; to prove if he was truly an American citizen. And we fell for it hook line and sinker. Damn truther chicanery…<\/p>\n

…But what was really happening was far more devious. Far more lecherous. With Obama\u2019s ascension and eventual election came a stark So they got creative. They weren\u2019t trying to prove if he was American. They were trying to reclaim<\/em> him. After 400 or so years of the one drop rule<\/a>, they finally realized that if they kept allowing us to claim all people with even a teaspoon of African blood as 100% Black, their numbers would continue to dwindle…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Race Draft Fails, Again Ebony 2015-08-26 Damon Young, Writer (left) Barack Obama, Mariah Carey and Shawn King Damon Young says a recent campaign questioning Shaun King’s ethnicity is the latest in a string of attempts to take good Blacks out the gene pool We should have seen it coming. All the signs were there. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[20832,18297,6203,20831],"class_list":["post-42414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-damon-young","tag-ebony","tag-ebony-magazine","tag-shawn-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42414","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=42414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42415,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42414\/revisions\/42415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}