{"id":32805,"date":"2013-08-13T23:38:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T23:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32805"},"modified":"2016-03-01T01:42:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:42:38","slug":"how-my-white-mother-shaped-me-into-a-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32805","title":{"rendered":"How my white mother shaped me into a black man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/08\/13\/how-my-white-mother-shaped-me-into-a-black-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">How my white mother shaped me into a black man<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/shows\/melissa-harris-perry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Harris-Perry<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a><br \/>\n2013-08-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smgtalk.com\/2010\/10\/albert-l-butler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albert L. Butler<\/a><\/strong>, Radio Host<br \/>\n<em>900 AM WURD, Philadelphia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am an avid watcher of Melissa Harris-Perry, so I was not at all surprised\u2013and was quite pleased\u2013when host Melissa Harris-Perry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/46979745\/#52728280\" target=\"_blank\">tackled the subject of white mothers raising black boys in America<\/a> in the wake of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_of_Florida_v._George_Zimmerman\" target=\"_blank\">George Zimmerman verdict<\/a>. Prior to turning to her panel, the professor reminisced about her white mother offering a relevant (yet often overlooked) point that white mothers of black boys are confronted by the same realities as black mothers.<\/p>\n<p>As the segment continued, I found myself nodding in agreement as the panel of mothers discussed how important it was to talk about race, discrimination, and culture with their black children. I know firsthand how important this is; <strong>I am the black son of a white mother<\/strong>, and my mom made sure she addressed those issues in various ways from my early childhood to my early adulthood. Even now, as I stretch across the 40-year-old threshold, we still discuss all of it. <strong>Her choices, in very large measure, empowered me to be the strong, confident black man that I am today&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/08\/13\/how-my-white-mother-shaped-me-into-a-black-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How my white mother shaped me into a black man Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC 2013-08-13 Albert L. Butler, Radio Host 900 AM WURD, Philadelphia I am an avid watcher of Melissa Harris-Perry, so I was not at all surprised\u2013and was quite pleased\u2013when host Melissa Harris-Perry tackled the subject of white mothers raising black boys in America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[15401,15400,6477,2684],"class_list":["post-32805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-albert-butler","tag-albert-l-butler","tag-melissa-harris-perry","tag-msnbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32805","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=32805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45836,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32805\/revisions\/45836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}