{"id":23249,"date":"2012-05-21T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23249"},"modified":"2012-05-21T00:06:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:06:02","slug":"the-blonde-blue-eyed-black-man-who-one-goal-racial-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23249","title":{"rendered":"The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal\u2014racial justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/opinion\/article\/The-blonde-blue-eyed-black-man-who-one-goal-379150.php\" target=\"_blank\">The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal\u2014racial justice<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The News-Times<\/a><br \/>\nDanbury, Connecticut<br \/>\n2010-02-24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antoinette Bosco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama has already made history in our nation, becoming the first black candidate ever to be elected to the U.S. presidency.<\/p>\n<p>But, in truth, he is following a path that has long been set by black people before him, who believed in justice and equal rights for all, and worked to get these.<\/p>\n<p>This is Black History Month, a special time to remember this.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOne of these courageous people, too long forgotten, was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Francis_White\" target=\"_blank\">Walter White<\/a>, born 117 years ago, called &#8220;the man most responsible for the triumph of racial justice&#8221; by Maryknoll Father Albert J. Nevins back in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>This priest had put together a book he called &#8220;an anthology of Christian literature,&#8221; which he hoped would &#8220;give you a little more understanding of our complex world, that it will inspire you to a greater appreciation of the principles for which Christ lived and died.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI found this book, fortunately, at one of the great book fairs put on each year by the Danbury Library.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn it Father Nevins had included a piece written by Walter White titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=23235\" target=\"_blank\">Why I Remain a Negro<\/a>.&#8221; With a title like that, my curiosity took over immediately.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHis story began, &#8220;I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blonde. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/opinion\/article\/The-blonde-blue-eyed-black-man-who-one-goal-379150.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal\u2014racial justice The News-Times Danbury, Connecticut 2010-02-24 Antoinette Bosco Barack Obama has already made history in our nation, becoming the first black candidate ever to be elected to the U.S. presidency. But, in truth, he is following a path that has long been set by black people before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,20],"tags":[10831,10832,10829,10830,6786,1929],"class_list":["post-23249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-albert-j-nevins","tag-albert-nevins","tag-antoinette-bosco","tag-the-news-times","tag-walter-francis-white","tag-walter-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249","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=23249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}