{"id":39028,"date":"2014-12-21T21:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T21:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39028"},"modified":"2017-02-19T23:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T23:04:07","slug":"my-family-has-always-been-mixed-race-but-it-has-never-been-post-racial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39028","title":{"rendered":"My family has always been mixed race. But it has never been post-racial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/dec\/17\/my-family-mixed-race-not-post-racial-ferguson\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>My family has always been mixed race. But it has never been post-racial<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2014-12-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ramou\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ramou Sarr<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Boston, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was always terrified that my white nephew would grow up to be a racist. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown\">The events in Ferguson<\/a> tested our relationship to its breaking point<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was almost 10 years ago, and my little blond nephew couldn\u2019t have been older than five when, during a game of making funny faces, I pulled my ears out from under my hair \u2013 which always smelled burned from the flat iron I used to tame my kinky curls \u2013 and puffed my cheeks out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look like a monkey,\u201d he whispered. I asked my nephew to repeat himself. \u201cYou look like a monkey,\u201d he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/dec\/17\/my-family-mixed-race-not-post-racial-ferguson\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family has always been mixed race. But it has never been post-racial The Guardian 2014-12-17 Ramou Sarr Boston, Massachusetts I was always terrified that my white nephew would grow up to be a racist. The events in Ferguson tested our relationship to its breaking point It was almost 10 years ago, and my little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[18840,2103],"class_list":["post-39028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ramou-sarr","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39028","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=39028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51712,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39028\/revisions\/51712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}