{"id":40800,"date":"2015-04-10T01:37:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40800"},"modified":"2015-04-10T01:37:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:37:33","slug":"how-i-learned-to-stop-worshipping-whiteness-while-growing-up-biracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40800","title":{"rendered":"How I Learned to Stop Worshipping Whiteness While Growing Up Biracial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\/2015\/04\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worshipping.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How I Learned to Stop Worshipping Whiteness While Growing Up Biracial<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\" target=\"_blank\">For Harriet<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/joleen-brantle\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Joleen Brantle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t always been very racially aware. When I was a child <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pok%C3%A9mon_Trading_Card_Game\" target=\"_blank\">Pok\u00e9mon cards<\/a>, cartoons, and school were of vastly greater importance to me. I was raised in a very diverse city with a strong Latino presence. I had friends of every race. Why would one\u2019s skin color matter? It certainly didn\u2019t to me.<\/p>\n<p>That naivety ended abruptly in 5th grade. Two significant factors came to a head. I began attending an all-white conservative Church, and my African-American father died; which catalyzed my process of rejecting him to appease the pain he had caused me, the effects of which I\u2019m still working to undo.<\/p>\n<p>Until I started attending this Church, I really hadn\u2019t been in many, if any, racially segregated spheres. So it was a bit of a culture shock when I met people who referred to me as a \u201clittle colored girl\u201d and told me interracial marriage, which I am proudly the product of, is a sin. But I loved these white people! As a child I always sought to please and generally took everything an adult said as the infallible truth (that actually began changing around this time). These people looked just like my mother and were very kind to me with the exception of the occasional offhand, casually racist, remark. What was I supposed to think?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\/2015\/04\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worshipping.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I Learned to Stop Worshipping Whiteness While Growing Up Biracial For Harriet 2015-04-08 Joleen Brantle I haven\u2019t always been very racially aware. When I was a child Pok\u00e9mon cards, cartoons, and school were of vastly greater importance to me. I was raised in a very diverse city with a strong Latino presence. I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[18377,19844],"class_list":["post-40800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-for-harriet","tag-joleen-brantle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40800","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=40800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}