{"id":33261,"date":"2013-08-30T04:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T04:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33261"},"modified":"2021-11-08T20:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:27:30","slug":"im-biracial-she-says-i-will-fight-somebody-who-calls-me-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33261","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m biracial,\u201d she says. \u201cI will fight somebody who calls me black.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Ms. [Heather] Curry thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr. Obama<\/a> identifying as African-American could be confusing to mixed-race children, making them feel they have to choose or making them think, \u201cIf Obama says he\u2019s black, does this mean I\u2019m black?\u201d She thinks biracial people shouldn\u2019t choose one race over the other because they are both.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m biracial,\u201d she says. \u201cI will fight somebody who calls me black.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>L. A. Johnson, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=23032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama election stokes debate over what is biracial<\/a>,\u201d <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em>, February 3, 2009. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/ae\/books\/2009\/02\/03\/Obama-election-stokes-debate-over-what-is-biracial\/stories\/200902030185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/ae\/books\/2009\/02\/03\/Obama-election-stokes-debate-over-what-is-biracial\/stories\/200902030185\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. [Heather] Curry thinks Mr. Obama identifying as African-American could be confusing to mixed-race children, making them feel they have to choose or making them think, \u201cIf Obama says he\u2019s black, does this mean I\u2019m black?\u201d She thinks biracial people shouldn\u2019t choose one race over the other because they are both. \u201cI\u2019m biracial,\u201d she says. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[10704,10700,9457],"class_list":["post-33261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-excerpts","tag-heather-curry","tag-l-a-johnson","tag-pittsburgh-post-gazette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261","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=33261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62149,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261\/revisions\/62149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}