{"id":40115,"date":"2015-02-24T03:09:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T03:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40115"},"modified":"2015-02-24T03:12:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T03:12:59","slug":"i-am-your-problem-dad-you-are-the-white-father-of-a-black-daughter-you-are-accountable-to-a-life-that-is-squarely-outside-of-the-jurisdiction-of-the-whiteness-that-swaddles-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40115","title":{"rendered":"I am your problem, Dad. You are the white father of a black daughter. You are accountable to a life that is squarely outside of the jurisdiction of the whiteness that swaddles you."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI am your problem, Dad. You are the white father of a black daughter. You are accountable to a life that is squarely outside of the jurisdiction of the whiteness that swaddles you. I should be the problem that won\u2019t let you come home white and blissfully unaware, but somehow this is not the case. Somehow, you feel like a white man first and my dad second. You asymmetrically toggle between the two, coming into focus as one only to obscure the other.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kelsey Henry, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40083\" target=\"_blank\">An Open Letter to the White Fathers of Black Daughters<\/a>,\u201d <em>bluestockings magazine<\/em>, (February 23, 2015). <a href=\"http:\/\/bluestockingsmag.com\/2015\/02\/23\/an-open-letter-to-the-white-fathers-of-black-daughters\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bluestockingsmag.com\/2015\/02\/23\/an-open-letter-to-the-white-fathers-of-black-daughters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am your problem, Dad. You are the white father of a black daughter. You are accountable to a life that is squarely outside of the jurisdiction of the whiteness that swaddles you. I should be the problem that won\u2019t let you come home white and blissfully unaware, but somehow this is not the case. [&hellip;]<\/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":[17006,19384],"class_list":["post-40115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-bluestockings-magazine","tag-kelsey-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40115","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=40115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}