{"id":38884,"date":"2014-12-14T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38884"},"modified":"2014-12-14T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:08:00","slug":"the-talk-after-ferguson-a-shaded-conversation-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38884","title":{"rendered":"The Talk: After Ferguson, a Shaded Conversation About Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/14\/sunday-review\/dana-canedy-the-talk-after-ferguson-a-shaded-conversation-about-race.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Talk: After Ferguson, a Shaded Conversation About Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2014-12-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danacanedy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dana Canedy<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Editor<\/p>\n<p>LIKE so many African-American parents, I had rehearsed \u201cthe talk,\u201d that nausea-inducing discussion I needed to have with my son about how to conduct himself in the presence of the police. I was prepared for his questions, except for one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I just pretend I\u2019m white?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan was born to African-American parents, but recessive genes being what they are, he has very fair skin and pale blue eyes. I am caramel brown, and since his birth eight years ago people have mistaken me for his nanny.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked why he would want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cpass\u201d for white<\/a>, I struggled with how to respond to his answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it\u2019s safer,\u201d Jordan replied. \u201cThey won\u2019t hurt me.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/14\/sunday-review\/dana-canedy-the-talk-after-ferguson-a-shaded-conversation-about-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Talk: After Ferguson, a Shaded Conversation About Race The New York Times 2014-12-13 Dana Canedy, Senior Editor LIKE so many African-American parents, I had rehearsed \u201cthe talk,\u201d that nausea-inducing discussion I needed to have with my son about how to conduct himself in the presence of the police. I was prepared for his questions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,6462,20],"tags":[18749,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-38884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-dana-canedy","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38884","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=38884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}