{"id":25278,"date":"2012-09-09T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25278"},"modified":"2019-02-19T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:31:27","slug":"well-i-always-joked-that-it-the-bill-of-rights-for-people-of-mixed-heritage-was-channeled-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25278","title":{"rendered":"Well, I\u2019ve always joked that it [The Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage] was channeled to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Well, I\u2019ve always joked that it was channeled to me. [Be]cause it was very easy. But it was after talking, just talking with people. That\u2019s what people told me. So I wrote it down. You know, I organized, wrote it down. It was really given to me by the people. And that&#8217;s why I\u2019ve always said it&#8217;s for anybody\u2019s public use. It&#8217;s not mine. I don\u2019t own that. So, there\u2019s no great story behind it, other than this is what people were sharing with me, with their stories when I go to mixed family groups, or conferences, or just \u00a0talking with people individually. It all came out of that. I didn\u2019t make a single piece of that up myself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/drmariaroot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria P. P. Root<\/a>\u00a0describing the creation of her \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.safehousealliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/A-Bill-of-Rights-for-Racially-Mixed-People.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage<\/a>\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 113 &#8211; Dr. Maria P. P. Root<\/a>,\u201d <em>Mixed Chicks Chat<\/em>, August 7, 2009, (00:22:31 &#8211; 00:23:22).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-34257\/TS-237195.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-34257\/TS-237195.mp3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I\u2019ve always joked that it was channeled to me. [Be]cause it was very easy. But it was after talking, just talking with people. That\u2019s what people told me. So I wrote it down. You know, I organized, wrote it down. It was really given to me by the people. And that&#8217;s why I\u2019ve always [&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":[140,365,73],"class_list":["post-25278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-maria-p-p-root","tag-maria-root","tag-mixed-chicks-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25278","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=25278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57606,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25278\/revisions\/57606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}