{"id":54162,"date":"2017-06-12T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54162"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:23:05","slug":"tma-founders-statement-on-loving-day-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54162","title":{"rendered":"TMA Founder\u2019s Statement on Loving Day 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/12\/tma-founders-statement-on-loving-day-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>TMA Founder\u2019s Statement on Loving Day 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracial.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Multiracial Activist<\/a><br \/>\nJune 12, 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jlandrith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>James Landrith<\/strong><\/a>, Founder and Publisher<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/12\/tma-founders-statement-on-loving-day-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>As this is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loving Day<\/a> and so much has changed in the last few years, I am reposting my 2015 statement as a reminder of what we have to lose. What I said in 2015, still stands in 2017. Those pockets of hatred and individuals I mentioned in 2015 are making their presence known loudly in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Hard-won legal victories pertaining to interracial relationship marriage rights are not in any immediate danger. However, the current iteration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republican_Party_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP<\/a> has repeatedly demonstrated an utter lack of a spine with regard to dealing with the long-term effects of the party\u2019s immoral courting of bigots and racists. The effects of their collusion and apathy are evident.<\/p>\n<p>This mess isn\u2019t going away anytime soon. The right to love and marry across lines is settled. However, racism and anti-miscegenationist thought are very much alive. Now is not the time to sleep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/12\/tma-founders-statement-on-loving-day-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this is Loving Day and so much has changed in the last few years, I am reposting my 2015 statement as a reminder of what we have to lose. What I said in 2015, still stands in 2017. Those pockets of hatred and individuals I mentioned in 2015 are making their presence known loudly in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,23674,20],"tags":[27096,27095,2968],"class_list":["post-54162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-james-landrith","tag-multiracial-activist","tag-the-multiracial-activist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54162","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=54162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54193,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54162\/revisions\/54193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}