{"id":38674,"date":"2014-12-01T19:38:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38674"},"modified":"2014-12-14T01:21:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T01:21:24","slug":"privilege-is-like-oxygen-you-dont-realize-its-there-until-its-gone-as-white-folks-we-cant-know-what-its-like-to-go-through-life-without-racial-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38674","title":{"rendered":"Privilege is like oxygen: You don\u2019t realize it\u2019s there until it\u2019s gone. As white folks, we can\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to go through life without racial privilege because we literally haven\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Privilege is like oxygen: You don\u2019t realize it\u2019s there until it\u2019s gone. As white folks, we can\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to go through life without racial privilege because we literally haven\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sally Kohn, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38648\" target=\"_blank\">What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, November 28, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/11\/28\/what-white-people-need-to-know-and-do-after-ferguson\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/11\/28\/what-white-people-need-to-know-and-do-after-ferguson\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privilege is like oxygen: You don\u2019t realize it\u2019s there until it\u2019s gone. As white folks, we can\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to go through life without racial privilege because we literally haven\u2019t. Sally Kohn, \u201cWhat white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson,\u201d The Washington Post, November 28, 2014. http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/11\/28\/what-white-people-need-to-know-and-do-after-ferguson\/.<\/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":[18584,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-38674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-sally-kohn","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674","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=38674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}