{"id":15304,"date":"2011-08-02T02:33:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15304"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:35:50","slug":"the-right-to-self-identify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15304","title":{"rendered":"The right to self-identify?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have the right to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify.<br \/>\nI have the right to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me.<br \/>\nI have the right to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters.<br \/>\nI have the right to identify myself differently in different situations&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fanshen Cox. \u201c<a href=\" http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZgELKdb8Ns\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Minute: Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage<\/a>\u201d (from Maria P. P. Root\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmariaroot.com\/doc\/BillOfRights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage<\/a>\u201d),&#8221; <em>You Tube<\/em>, February 27, 2009. 00:00:28-00:00:43. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZgELKdb8Ns\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZgELKdb8Ns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He\u2019s [SilverSpringSteve] is saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">[Barack] Obama<\/a> says \u201che is a black man with a white mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes&#8230; I think as we continue to speak that way&#8230; we will see though, the fallacy in saying that a \u201cblack man with a white mother\u201d doesn\u2019t work either. And that works for him now in this day and age, and the way he grew up and the way he had to grow up. <strong>But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s something we should applaud for the future or encourage for the future.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fanshen Cox. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-34257\/TS-482022.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 204: Mixed Bag<\/a>,\u201d <em>Mixed Chicks Chat<\/em>, May 5, 2011. 00:27:16-00:27:49. <a href=\"http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-34257\/TS-482022.mp3\">http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-34257\/TS-482022.mp3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the right to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify. I have the right to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me. I have the right to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters. I have the right to identify myself differently in different situations&#8230; Fanshen Cox. \u201cMixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[118,73],"class_list":["post-15304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-excerpts","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-mixed-chicks-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15304","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=15304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}