{"id":22112,"date":"2013-07-14T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22112"},"modified":"2016-06-06T00:30:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:30:53","slug":"put-a-hoodie-on-him-and-have-him-walk-down-an-alley-and-see-how-biracial-he-is-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22112","title":{"rendered":"Put a hoodie on him and have him walk down an alley, and see how biracial he is then&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Exhibit A is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a>. He declined to check the box for \u201cwhite\u201d on his census form, despite his mother\u2019s well-known whiteness.<\/p>\n<p>Obama offered no explanation, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naacp.org\/about\/mcdowell\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Leila McDowell<\/a> has an idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoodie\" target=\"_blank\">hoodie<\/a> on him and have him walk down an alley, and see how biracial he is then,\u201d said McDowell, vice president of communications for the NAACP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jesse Washington, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6712\" target=\"_blank\">Black or biracial? Census forces a choice for some<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Associated Press<\/em>, April 14, 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessewashington.com\/im-not-biracial.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>http:\/\/www.jessewashington.com\/im-not-biracial.html<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibit A is President Barack Obama. He declined to check the box for \u201cwhite\u201d on his census form, despite his mother\u2019s well-known whiteness. Obama offered no explanation, but Leila McDowell has an idea. \u201cPut a hoodie on him and have him walk down an alley, and see how biracial he is then,\u201d said McDowell, vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2822,2823,2825,8569],"class_list":["post-22112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-associated-press","tag-jesse-washington","tag-leila-mcdowell","tag-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112","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=22112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42657,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions\/42657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}