{"id":40261,"date":"2015-03-04T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40261"},"modified":"2016-07-09T19:04:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T19:04:41","slug":"i-mixed-with-great-thought-and-measured-action-which-is-helping-to-create-a-world-where-one-day-people-will-ask-how-are-you-doing-before-asking-what-are-you-mixed-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40261","title":{"rendered":"I mixed with great thought and measured action, which is helping to create a world where one day people will ask \u201cHow are you doing?\u201d before asking &#8220;What are you mixed with?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m mixed with the bravery of a soldier and the passion of activists. I\u2019m mixed with the rage of a victim and the hope of a survivor. I\u2019m mixed with brilliance of a polymath and the swag of a \u201chood boy.\u201d I\u2019m mixed with the past and present and my future is as bright as my skin. I\u2019m mixed, because I\u2019m both spiritual and human and my life is both joyous and challenging. I\u2019m mixed with big ideas and the skills to execute them. What am I mixed with you ask? I mixed with great thought and measured action, which is helping to create a world where one day people will ask \u201cHow are you doing?\u201d before asking &#8220;What are you mixed with?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealTBOInc\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher \u201cFlood the Drummer<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u201d Norris<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40222\" target=\"_blank\">The Question I\u2019m Often Asked as a \u2018High Yellow\u2019 Black Man<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Good Men Project<\/em>, (February 21, 2015). <a href=\"http:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/cnorris-the-question-im-often-asked-as-a-high-yellow-black-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/cnorris-the-question-im-often-asked-as-a-high-yellow-black-man\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m mixed with the bravery of a soldier and the passion of activists. I\u2019m mixed with the rage of a victim and the hope of a survivor. I\u2019m mixed with brilliance of a polymath and the swag of a \u201chood boy.\u201d I\u2019m mixed with the past and present and my future is as bright as [&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":[19480,19481,19479,15203],"class_list":["post-40261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-christopher-a-norris","tag-christopher-norris","tag-christopher-flood-the-drummer-norris","tag-the-good-men-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261","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=40261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48157,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261\/revisions\/48157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}