{"id":40510,"date":"2015-03-19T01:28:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T01:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40510"},"modified":"2016-06-09T20:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:07:01","slug":"im-actually-black-awkwardness-ensues-when-journalist-calls-radio-host-jay-smooth-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40510","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m actually black\u2019: Awkwardness ensues when journalist calls radio host Jay Smooth white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/03\/im-actually-black-awkwardness-ensues-when-journalist-calls-radio-host-jay-smooth-white\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018I\u2019m actually black\u2019: Awkwardness ensues when journalist calls radio host Jay Smooth white<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-18<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Ferguson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/03\/im-actually-black-awkwardness-ensues-when-journalist-calls-radio-host-jay-smooth-white\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nancy-Giles-and-Jay-Smooth-on-All-In-via-screencap-800x430.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In one of the most cringe-worthy moments of television you will ever see, on Tuesday night\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\"><em>All In with Chris Hayes<\/em><\/a>, activist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nancy_Giles\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Giles<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sunday-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>CBS Sunday Morning<\/em><\/a> accused hip hop critic and cultural commentator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raceforward.org\/about\/staff\/jay-smooth\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Smooth<\/a> of being a white man who is trying to \u201ccode switch,\u201d i.e., talk \u201cblack\u201d to reach the rap audience.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth \u2014 who was born John Randolph to a black father and a white mother \u2014 gently explained to Giles that he is, in fact, black.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion began innocently enough, with Hayes and his two guests discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Schultz\" target=\"_blank\">Starbucks<\/a> CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Schultz\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Schultz\u2019s<\/a> decree that all U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barista\" target=\"_blank\">baristas<\/a> should write the words \u201cRace together\u201d in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharpie_(marker)\" target=\"_blank\">Sharpie<\/a> on their paper cups in order to foster a dialogue about race with their customers.<\/p>\n<p>But after watching Smooth\u2019s clip \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40498\" target=\"_blank\">How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist<\/a>,\u201d Giles took it upon herself to comment on Smooth\u2019s \u201cco-opting blackness.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/03\/im-actually-black-awkwardness-ensues-when-journalist-calls-radio-host-jay-smooth-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Watch the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all-in\/watch\/an-amazing-discussion-on-discussing-race-414667331666\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I\u2019m actually black\u2019: Awkwardness ensues when journalist calls radio host Jay Smooth white Raw Story 2015-03-18 David Ferguson In one of the most cringe-worthy moments of television you will ever see, on Tuesday night\u2019s All In with Chris Hayes, activist Nancy Giles of CBS Sunday Morning accused hip hop critic and cultural commentator Jay Smooth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13743,8,20,842],"tags":[18028,18027,19678,19680,15879,16255,19681,19677,19679],"class_list":["post-40510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-all-in-with-chris-hayes","tag-chris-hayes","tag-david-ferguson","tag-howard-schultz","tag-jay-smooth","tag-john-randolph","tag-nancy-giles","tag-raw-story","tag-starbucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40510","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=40510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47478,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40510\/revisions\/47478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}