{"id":26675,"date":"2012-11-25T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26675"},"modified":"2016-11-23T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T17:39:11","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-part-of-the-community-now-i%e2%80%99m-a-white-boy-i%e2%80%99m-as-white-as-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26675","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m part of the community now. I\u2019m a white boy! I\u2019m as white as snow&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201c&#8230;It\u2019s kind of like living in a shadow. It sounds funny, but that\u2019s what it feels like.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be able to walk and say: \u2018Hey, This is who I am. This is what I am. This ain\u2019t what you want me to be. This ain\u2019t what I\u2019m thinking to be.\u00a0 This is me.\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>..I\u2019m hoping it [DNA test result]\u00a0is what I\u2019m thinking it is. I\u2019m hoping that I am a w<em>hite<\/em> American&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;They [blacks] got it rough, I know. If I\u2019m gonna be black I don\u2019t want to be in America. Because they don\u2019t get a fair shake.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m ready&#8230; \u00a0Here we go.<\/p>\n<p>It says 75% European&#8230; so I&#8217;m all&#8230; I\u2019m white! [Be]cause I\u2019ve only got 22% of African and only 3% of Asian. So hey&#8230; that\u2019s sweet! When they ask me \u2018what you are?\u2019 I can tell them now. I\u2019m part of the community now. I\u2019m a white boy!\u00a0 I\u2019m as white as snow&#8230; I just can\u2019t believe that I\u2019m a white man. I can actually say I\u2019m a white man now. \u00a0I\u2019m happy!\u00a0 [laughter]\u00a0I can\u2019t believe this.\u00a0 I should have done this years ago.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stateofthereunion\/8206893592\/in\/set-72157632069153808\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Harris<\/a> (Janitor, Waverly, Ohio Courthouse) on his racial identity before and after reading the results of his DNA ancestry results.<\/p>\n<p>Al Letson and Lu Olkowski, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26643\" target=\"_blank\">Pike County, Ohio\u2014As Black as We Wish to Be<\/a>,\u201d <em>State of the Re:Union<\/em>, September 28, 2012. (Part 7, Segment C, (00:08:02-00:11:44)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prx.org\/pieces\/85361-pike-county-ohio-as-black-as-we-wish-to-be\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.prx.org\/pieces\/85361-pike-county-ohio-as-black-as-we-wish-to-be<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8230;It\u2019s kind of like living in a shadow. It sounds funny, but that\u2019s what it feels like. I want to be able to walk and say: \u2018Hey, This is who I am. This is what I am. This ain\u2019t what you want me to be. This ain\u2019t what I\u2019m thinking to be.\u00a0 This is me.\u2019&#8230; [&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":[12857,12871,12858,260,12860,12859],"class_list":["post-26675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-al-letson","tag-jeff-harris","tag-lu-olkowski","tag-ohio","tag-pike-county","tag-state-of-the-reunion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675","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=26675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47672,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675\/revisions\/47672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}