{"id":25422,"date":"2012-09-16T17:02:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25422"},"modified":"2012-09-16T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:02:37","slug":"i-kind-of-never-fit-in-kind-of-had-to-find-my-own-niche-and-find-my-own-way-so-i%e2%80%99ve-experienced-discrimination-at-a-young-age-and-it%e2%80%99s-made-me-the-person-who-i-am-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25422","title":{"rendered":"I kind of never fit in, kind of had to find my own niche and find my own way. So I\u2019ve experienced discrimination at a young age, and it\u2019s made me the person who I am today."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m a product of two biracial parents\u2014so actually, I\u2019m not biracial, but I\u2019m a product of it,\u201d he [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brendon_Ayanbadejo\" target=\"_blank\">Brendon Ayanbadejo<\/a>]\u00a0said, laughing. \u201cMy dad is Nigerian. My mom is Irish-American. So I kind of never really fit in. From the black community, I was considered white. From the white community, I was considered black. And then from my own Nigerian community, I wasn\u2019t considered Nigerian. I was considered a black American. I kind of never fit in, kind of had to find my own niche and find my own way. So I\u2019ve experienced discrimination at a young age, and it\u2019s made me the person who I am today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michelangelo Signorile, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25378\" target=\"_blank\">Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens Linebacker, Talks Gay Marriage And LGBT Rights<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Huffington Post<\/em>, September 12, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/12\/brendon-ayanbadejo-baltimore-ravens-gay-marriage-homophobia-jamie-kuntz_n_1877048.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/12\/brendon-ayanbadejo-baltimore-ravens-gay-marriage-homophobia-jamie-kuntz_n_1877048.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m a product of two biracial parents\u2014so actually, I\u2019m not biracial, but I\u2019m a product of it,\u201d he [Brendon Ayanbadejo]\u00a0said, laughing. \u201cMy dad is Nigerian. My mom is Irish-American. So I kind of never really fit in. From the black community, I was considered white. From the white community, I was considered black. And then [&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":[11861,11868],"class_list":["post-25422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-brendon-ayanbadejo","tag-michelangelo-signorile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25422","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=25422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}