{"id":40857,"date":"2015-04-15T03:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T03:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40857"},"modified":"2015-04-16T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T20:28:10","slug":"sunday-stew-unsolicited-advice-for-a-black-girl-too-light-to-be-heavy-but-too-heavy-to-be-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40857","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Stew: Unsolicited Advice For A Black Girl Too Light To Be Heavy But Too Heavy To Be White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southseattleemerald.com\/2015\/04\/12\/sunday-stew-unsolicited-advise-for-a-black-girl-too-light-to-be-heavy-but-too-heavy-to-be-white\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Sunday Stew: Unsolicited Advice For A Black Girl Too Light To Be Heavy But Too Heavy To Be White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southseattleemerald.com\" target=\"_blank\">South Seattle Emerald<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikkita Oliver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southseattleemerald.com\/2015\/04\/12\/sunday-stew-unsolicited-advise-for-a-black-girl-too-light-to-be-heavy-but-too-heavy-to-be-white\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/southseattleemerald.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/mixed-girl-2.jpg?w=698&amp;h=576&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Painting by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womanofcolour.com\/2010\/05\/introducing-artist-tarra-louis-charles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tarra Louis-Charles<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>In the Style of <a href=\"http:\/\/jeanannverlee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanann Verlee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unsolicited Advice for a Black Mixed Girl<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Too Light to be Heavy, but too Heavy to be White:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the girl in your class fixes her lips<\/p>\n<p>to call your mother a \u201cnigger lover\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fix her face<\/p>\n<p>So next time she thinks twice<\/p>\n<p>Before fixin\u2019 her lips around anyone\u2019s mama<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the kids on the playground start to sing<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJungle Fever\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Join them<\/p>\n<p>You must live<\/p>\n<p>to fight another day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire poem <a href=\"http:\/\/southseattleemerald.com\/2015\/04\/12\/sunday-stew-unsolicited-advise-for-a-black-girl-too-light-to-be-heavy-but-too-heavy-to-be-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Stew: Unsolicited Advice For A Black Girl Too Light To Be Heavy But Too Heavy To Be White South Seattle Emerald 2015-04-12 Nikkita Oliver Painting by Tarra Louis-Charles In the Style of Jeanann Verlee Unsolicited Advice for a Black Mixed Girl Too Light to be Heavy, but too Heavy to be White: When the [&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":[19890,19889],"class_list":["post-40857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-nikkita-oliver","tag-south-seattle-emerald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40857","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=40857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}