{"id":52383,"date":"2015-04-09T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52383"},"modified":"2015-04-07T06:26:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T11:26:15","slug":"tone-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52383","title":{"rendered":"Tone Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1986 movie\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001367\/?ref_=tt_ov_st\">Soul Man<\/a><\/em>, C. Thomas Howell squandered the last of his\u00a0<em>Red Dawn\u00a0<\/em>teen-star career momentum on a dreadful movie about a white college student who gets into Harvard by, er, turning black.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably never heard of Vijay Chokal-Ingam. \u00a0You may know of his sister, actress Mindy Kalling (&#8220;The Office&#8221;, &#8220;The Mindy Project&#8221;), and then again, you may not, either.<\/p>\n<p>And I have a hunch the forces of political correctness will do their best to make sure Chokal-Ingam does not become a household name; he&#8217;s become an activist against Affirmative Action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2015\/04\/03\/brother-of-famous-actress-makes-huge-admission-about-his-medical-school-application-affirmative-action\/\">His journey there, from being an unknown pre-med student<\/a>, is wrapped up in this; a stunt to get into med school that sounds like it was ripped from <em>Soul Man<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man. My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brother didn\u2019t recognize me at first. I even joined the Organization of Black Students and started using my embarrassing middle name that I had hidden from all of my friends since I was a 9 years old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1986 movie\u00a0Soul Man, C. Thomas Howell squandered the last of his\u00a0Red Dawn\u00a0teen-star career momentum on a dreadful movie about a white college student who gets into Harvard by, er, turning black. You&#8217;ve probably never heard of Vijay Chokal-Ingam. \u00a0You may know of his sister, actress Mindy Kalling (&#8220;The Office&#8221;, &#8220;The Mindy Project&#8221;), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52509,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52383\/revisions\/52509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}