{"id":37993,"date":"2014-10-28T21:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37993"},"modified":"2014-10-28T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:06:48","slug":"i-hope-my-son-stays-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37993","title":{"rendered":"‘I Hope My Son Stays White’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I Hope My Son Stays White’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Ebony<\/a>
\nNews & Views<\/a>
\n2014-09-02<\/p>\n

Calvin Hennick<\/strong><\/p>\n

A White father of a biracial son admits his fears for what happens when his child gets older and can no longer ‘pass<\/a>‘<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a white man, and part of the privilege that comes along with that fact is this: I know, with something bordering on 100 percent certainty, how my death will not be portrayed if I am shot and killed while walking down the street unarmed.<\/p>\n

No one will scour my social media accounts for photos of me wearing a hooded sweatshirt or flipping off the camera. No one will ignore my lack of a criminal record and decide that I\u2019m a \u201cthug\u201d for unnamed reasons. It won\u2019t matter whether I\u2019ve smoked pot, or shoplifted, or if I was ever suspended from school.<\/p>\n

And, especially if my hypothetical assailant turns out to be black, I can be confident that there will be no rallies to support him. His identity will not be hidden from the public for days, and no crowdfunding<\/a> campaign will raise a six-figure sum to support his family through \u201ctheir\u201d difficult time.<\/p>\n

There will be no national effort to blame me for my own death…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘I Hope My Son Stays White’ Ebony News & Views 2014-09-02 Calvin Hennick A White father of a biracial son admits his fears for what happens when his child gets older and can no longer ‘pass‘ I am a white man, and part of the privilege that comes along with that fact is this: I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20],"tags":[18296,18297,6203],"class_list":["post-37993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-calvin-hennick","tag-ebony","tag-ebony-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993","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=37993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}