{"id":40500,"date":"2015-03-18T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40500"},"modified":"2015-03-18T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:56:05","slug":"who-the-fuck-am-i-to-sit-here-and-act-like-i-can-speak-for-black-people-i-cant-even-speak-for-white-people-i-cant-speak-for-nobody-and-i-felt-weird-about-that-so-i-took-my-racial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40500","title":{"rendered":"Who the fuck am I to sit here and act like I can speak for black people? I can\u2019t even speak for white people. I can\u2019t speak for nobody. And I felt weird about that. So I took my racial makeup and just stuck it in the back corner for a long time."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> due to white privilege, then you\u2019re white in a societal way,\u201d&#8230; \u201cNow, does that build a different set of issues inside somebody who knows they\u2019re not white, but they know that they\u2019re passing as white? Yeah, sure. Who the fuck am I to sit here and act like I can speak for black people? I can\u2019t even speak for white people. I can\u2019t speak for nobody. And I felt weird about that. So I took my racial makeup and just stuck it in the back corner for a long time.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slug_(rapper)\" target=\"_blank\">Slug<\/a> (Sean Michael Daley)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.killianayoung.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Killian Young<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40482\" target=\"_blank\">Once Upon a Time in Minneapolis: 20 Years of Rhymesayers<\/a>,\u201d <em>Consequence of Sound<\/em>, (March 12, 2015). <a href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2015\/03\/once-upon-a-time-in-minneapolis-20-years-of-rhymesayers\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2015\/03\/once-upon-a-time-in-minneapolis-20-years-of-rhymesayers\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re passing due to white privilege, then you\u2019re white in a societal way,\u201d&#8230; \u201cNow, does that build a different set of issues inside somebody who knows they\u2019re not white, but they know that they\u2019re passing as white? Yeah, sure. Who the fuck am I to sit here and act like I can speak for [&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":[19636,19637,19658,19638,19639],"class_list":["post-40500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-consequence-of-sound","tag-killian-young","tag-sean-daley","tag-sean-michael-daley","tag-slug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500","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=40500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}