{"id":34706,"date":"2013-11-13T02:41:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T02:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34706"},"modified":"2013-11-13T02:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T02:42:55","slug":"obstructing-the-right-of-black-humans-and-white-humans-to-form-families-is-a-central-feature-of-american-racism-if-retching-at-the-thought-of-that-right-being-exercised-isnt-racism-then-there-is-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34706","title":{"rendered":"Obstructing the right of black humans and white humans to form families is a central feature of American racism&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The problem here isn&#8217;t that we think <a href=\"mailto:cohenr@washpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Cohen<\/a> gags at the sight of an interracial couple and their children. The problem is that Richard Cohen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/richard-cohen-christies-tea-party-problem\/2013\/11\/11\/a1ffaa9c-4b05-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">thinks being repulsed isn&#8217;t actually racist<\/a>, but &#8220;conventional&#8221; or &#8220;culturally conservative.&#8221; Obstructing the right of black humans and white humans to form families is a central feature of American racism. If retching at the thought of that right being exercised isn&#8217;t racism, then there is no racism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/11\/richard-cohen-in-context\/281426\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Cohen in Context<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, (November 12, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/11\/richard-cohen-in-context\/281426\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/11\/richard-cohen-in-context\/281426\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem here isn&#8217;t that we think Richard Cohen gags at the sight of an interracial couple and their children. The problem is that Richard Cohen thinks being repulsed isn&#8217;t actually racist, but &#8220;conventional&#8221; or &#8220;culturally conservative.&#8221; Obstructing the right of black humans and white humans to form families is a central feature of American [&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":[16347,6000,6001],"class_list":["post-34706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-richard-cohen","tag-ta-nehisi-coates","tag-the-atlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706","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=34706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}