{"id":1927,"date":"2010-04-01T08:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/mlf-census-suggesion\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T08:10:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:10:42","slug":"mlf-census-suggesion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/mlf-census-suggesion\/","title":{"rendered":"MSLF Census suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Little wonder that Americans find the Obama Administration\u2019s Census Bureau\u2019s emphasis on race a little off-putting, perhaps even worrisome.\u00a0 Fortunately, Mark Krikorian  provided a possible remedy.\u00a0 Noting the words of Justice Antonin Scalia in the famous Adarand ruling\u2014\u201cIn the eyes of government, we are just one race here.\u00a0 It is American.\u201d\u2014Krikorian suggested answering \u201cQuestion 9 by checking the last option \u2014 \u2018Some other race\u2019 \u2014 and writing in \u2018American\u2019.&#8221;\u00a0 He argued, not only is it \u201ca truthful answer\u201d but it is also a way for \u201cordinary citizens to express their rejection of unconstitutional racial classification schemes.\u201d\u00a0 Until the U.S. Supreme Court issues a final, binding ruling on the subject, that will have to  do.&#8221; \u00a0(From Mountain States Legal Foundation)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Little wonder that Americans find the Obama Administration\u2019s Census Bureau\u2019s emphasis on race a little off-putting, perhaps even worrisome.\u00a0 Fortunately, Mark Krikorian provided a possible remedy.\u00a0 Noting the words of Justice Antonin Scalia in the famous Adarand ruling\u2014\u201cIn the eyes of government, we are just one race here.\u00a0 It is American.\u201d\u2014Krikorian suggested answering \u201cQuestion 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-constitution","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}