{"id":10825,"date":"2010-12-15T18:13:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T18:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10825"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:35:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:35:56","slug":"with-shades-of-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10825","title":{"rendered":"With Shades of Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/EMORY_MAGAZINE\/2009\/spring\/coda2.html\" target=\"_blank\">With Shades of Gray<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/EMORY_MAGAZINE\" target=\"_blank\">Emory Magazine<\/a><br \/>\nEmory University<br \/>\n<a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.emory.edu\/EMORY_MAGAZINE\/2009\/spring\" target=\"_blank\">Spring 2009<\/a>: Coda: A Changing Country<\/p>\n<p><em>Reflections on the Inauguration of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Taharee Jackson<\/strong>, &#8217;10 PhD<\/p>\n<p>The last thing I could afford to do was attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_inauguration\" target=\"_blank\">presidential inauguration<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Mall\" target=\"_blank\">National Mall<\/a>, but I simply couldn\u2019t miss it. I had to go and represent my multiracial family. As a multiracial woman, I am seldom presented with the opportunity to see someone just like me in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiger_Woods\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> has made multiraciality somewhat \u201ccool,\u201d yet people still have trouble identifying him in photos. That being said, to have the entire globe\u2019s gaze finally affixed on a biracial person\u2014on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>\u2014compelled me to travel to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, to support him. He wouldn\u2019t know I was there, but my family and I would . . . and it would mean the world to us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I braved subzero temperatures, no sleep, millions of people, closed train stations, and hours of no food or bathroom usage, not because I think of Obama as our first black president. True, I am part black, but so is he. He is part black. Barack Obama is half black and half white\u2014he is biracial. To acknowledge one part of him\u2014his blackness\u2014is certainly not to deny his whiteness, unless we deny him the right to identify himself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/EMORY_MAGAZINE\/2009\/spring\/coda2.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Shades of Gray Emory Magazine Emory University Spring 2009: Coda: A Changing Country Reflections on the Inauguration of President Barack Obama Taharee Jackson, &#8217;10 PhD The last thing I could afford to do was attend the presidential inauguration at the National Mall, but I simply couldn\u2019t miss it. I had to go and represent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,394,20],"tags":[4731,4732,4730],"class_list":["post-10825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-emory-magazine","tag-emory-university","tag-taharee-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825","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=10825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}