{"id":35355,"date":"2014-01-09T22:57:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35355"},"modified":"2014-01-09T22:57:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:57:02","slug":"she-said-her-racial-heritage-was-the-%e2%80%9cno-1-issue%e2%80%9d-when-she-launched-her-first-political-campaign-in-2006-%e2%80%94-repeatedly-being-asked-by-voters-to-%e2%80%9cclarify%e2%80%9d-her-rac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35355","title":{"rendered":"She said her racial heritage was the \u201cNo.1 issue\u201d when she launched her first political campaign in 2006 \u2014 repeatedly being asked by voters to \u201cclarify\u201d her racial identity."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jolene_Ivey\" target=\"_blank\">Ivey<\/a>, 51, is the daughter of a white woman who was raised by her black father and stepmother. She said her racial heritage was the \u201cNo.1 issue\u201d when she launched her first political campaign in 2006 \u2014 repeatedly being asked by voters to \u201cclarify\u201d her racial identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Erin Cox, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=34956\" target=\"_blank\">Ivey describes herself as \u2018Trayvon Martin\u2019s mom\u2019<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Baltimore Sun<\/em>, (October 14, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2013-10-14\/news\/bs-md-gansler-ivey-20131014_1_running-mate-doug-gansler-trayvon-martin\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2013-10-14\/news\/bs-md-gansler-ivey-20131014_1_running-mate-doug-gansler-trayvon-martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivey, 51, is the daughter of a white woman who was raised by her black father and stepmother. She said her racial heritage was the \u201cNo.1 issue\u201d when she launched her first political campaign in 2006 \u2014 repeatedly being asked by voters to \u201cclarify\u201d her racial identity. Erin Cox, \u201cIvey describes herself as \u2018Trayvon Martin\u2019s [&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":[11718,16508,16507,11717],"class_list":["post-35355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-baltimore-sun","tag-erin-cox","tag-jolene-ivey","tag-the-baltimore-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355","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=35355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}