{"id":36983,"date":"2014-08-06T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36983"},"modified":"2014-08-06T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:11:12","slug":"your-words-dont-change-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36983","title":{"rendered":"Your words don\u2019t change who I am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theracecardproject.com\/words-dont-change\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Your words don\u2019t change who I am<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theracecardproject.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Race Card Project<\/a> (by <a href=\"http:\/\/theracecardproject.com\/michele-norris\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Norris<\/a>)<br \/>\n2014-08-05<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blake Coffey<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Van Nuys, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a world where being mixed is supposed to be looked at as beautiful, it\u2019s not as easy when you are. People automatically assume that all mixed people are supposed to look mixed just like they assume all Mexicans are brown. I\u2019m born to a mixed black\/white father who looks full black and society deems him so, and a white mother. I\u2019ve looked for people that are the same thing or mixed but not looked at as mixed but I\u2019ve always felt left out. I don\u2019t look at people as a certain race but they sure look at me like I am. I\u2019m judged and denied of who I am because genetics determined that I wouldn\u2019t come out looking mixed. Although I\u2019ve faced racism from every race.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the day when I fully accept myself for who I am. I\u2019m not denying myself or anyone else of who I truly am&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire essay <a href=\"http:\/\/theracecardproject.com\/words-dont-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your words don\u2019t change who I am The Race Card Project (by Michele Norris) 2014-08-05 Blake Coffey Van Nuys, California In a world where being mixed is supposed to be looked at as beautiful, it\u2019s not as easy when you are. People automatically assume that all mixed people are supposed to look mixed just like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,20],"tags":[17674,12979,14257],"class_list":["post-36983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-blake-coffey","tag-race-card-project","tag-the-race-card-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36983","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=36983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}