{"id":39367,"date":"2015-01-10T22:20:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T22:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39367"},"modified":"2015-01-10T22:20:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T22:20:38","slug":"to-heal-world-show-solidarity-with-jews-of-color-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39367","title":{"rendered":"To heal world, show solidarity with Jews of color, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/article\/full\/73590\/to-heal-world-show-solidarity-with-jews-of-color-too\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>To heal world, show solidarity with Jews of color, too<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jweekly.com\" target=\"_blank\">J.: the Jewish news weekly of Northern California<\/a><br \/>\nSan Francisco, California<br \/>\n2015-01-08<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Carter Martinez<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Oakland, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My name is Kim. I am black, I am Jewish, and my life matters. For the last few months, our country has seen a movement growing from a wave of protests against the police and vigilante law enforcement killings of unarmed black men.<\/p>\n<p>As a country we have struggled with talking about the issues of police brutality and racism \u2014 individual racism, and the systemic and institutionalized racism that black and brown people in our country fall victim to on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>In America, a black person is killed by the police or by vigilante law enforcement every 28 hours. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMatter\" target=\"_blank\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a>, the movement that arose out of the outrage over these killings, describes itself as \u201can ideological and political intervention in a world where black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise \u2026 [an affirmation of black folks\u2019] contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over and over again, I\u2019ve heard people in the Jewish community talk about #BlackLivesMatter as if the violence and racism toward people of color is happening to an outside group we are not a part of. It\u2019s happening to \u201cthem,\u201d and we can only show solidarity to this group in certain ways because it is a group to which we do not belong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/article\/full\/73590\/to-heal-world-show-solidarity-with-jews-of-color-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To heal world, show solidarity with Jews of color, too J.: the Jewish news weekly of Northern California San Francisco, California 2015-01-08 Kim Carter Martinez Oakland, California My name is Kim. I am black, I am Jewish, and my life matters. For the last few months, our country has seen a movement growing from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[19022,19021,19025,19023,19024],"class_list":["post-39367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-j","tag-j-the-jewish-news-weekly-of-northern-california","tag-kim-c-martinez","tag-kim-carter-martinez","tag-kim-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39367","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=39367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}