{"id":36893,"date":"2014-07-26T19:49:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36893"},"modified":"2022-03-20T01:47:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T01:47:20","slug":"maybe-youre-just-an-asshole-the-mixed-race-persecution-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36893","title":{"rendered":"Maybe You&#8217;re Just An Asshole: The Mixed Race Persecution Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedracefeminist.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/maybe-youre-just-asshole-mixed-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Maybe You&#8217;re Just An Asshole: The Mixed Race Persecution Complex<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedracefeminist.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar.<\/a><br \/>\n2014-07-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csudh.edu\/africana\/faculty\/dr-donna-j-nicol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donna J. Nicol<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Africana Studies<br \/>\n<em>California State University, Dominguez Hills<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4B0yoMAPDIo\/U9MWbZFi_0I\/AAAAAAAAAis\/Lyh0B4CBCmI\/s1600\/20140208_BRP001_0.jpg\" style=\"display:block;width:75%;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Black girls are always hatin&#8217; on me. I can&#8217;t help it if their man prefers light-skinned pretty women.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You have no idea how hard it is to be mixed race.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I get it. Being mixed race in a mono-racial society is tough. There still isn&#8217;t much room for multiplicity in our society. From race categories on forms, to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> being called the first &#8220;Black&#8221; president even as he was raised by his white grandparents, to people asking a mixed race person &#8220;what are you?&#8221; as if being mixed means you are freak, it is undoubtedly hard where it seems people want to force you into a box just to make their lives easier. I get it&#8230;.I live that same reality on a daily basis but I have also noticed another phenomenon that either few mixed race people acknowledge, understand or are willing to talk about and that is what I call &#8220;the mixed race persecution&#8221; complex&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/mixedracefeminist.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/maybe-youre-just-asshole-mixed-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get it. Being mixed race in a mono-racial society is tough. There still isn&#8217;t much room for multiplicity in our society. From race categories on forms, to Barack Obama being called the first &#8220;Black&#8221; president even as he was raised by his white grandparents, to people asking a mixed race person &#8220;what are you?&#8221; as if being mixed means you are freak, it is undoubtedly hard where it seems people want to force you into a box just to make their lives easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,20],"tags":[17337,17338,17336],"class_list":["post-36893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-donna-j-nicol","tag-donna-nicol","tag-musings-of-a-mixed-race-feminist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36893","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=36893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63470,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36893\/revisions\/63470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}