{"id":40866,"date":"2015-04-16T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40866"},"modified":"2015-04-16T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T14:35:14","slug":"being-black-at-seattle-pacific-university-3-things-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40866","title":{"rendered":"Being Black at Seattle Pacific University: 3 Things I Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christenacleveland.com\/2013\/08\/radical-racial-reconciliation-at-seattle-pacific-university\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Being Black at Seattle Pacific University: 3 Things I Learned<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christenacleveland.com\" target=\"_blank\">Christena Cleveland: social psychology + faith + reconciliation<\/a><br \/>\n2013-08-30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikkita Oliver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christenacleveland.com\/2013\/08\/radical-racial-reconciliation-at-seattle-pacific-university\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.christenacleveland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Nikkita-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>NOTE: This is the fourth part in our 8-part <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christenacleveland.com\/tag\/black-to-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black to School<\/a> series which highlights African-American voices and experiences at Christian colleges. Please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christenacleveland.com\/2013\/08\/black-to-school-african-american-voices-at-christian-colleges\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a> for context.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today\u2019s post comes from Nikkita Oliver who graduated from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle_Pacific_University\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Pacific University<\/a> in 2008. A former chaplain and service provider at the King County Youth Detention Center, she\u2019s currently working on a J.D. at the University of Washington Law School \u2014 on a full scholarship, no less. (Way to go, Nikkita!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m so encouraged that Nikkita\u2019s exploration into the depths of her experience at SPU has resulted in grace, hope and a greater commitment to reconciliation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*************************<\/p>\n<p>As a child I was acutely aware of the massive racial divide in the church. My father is Black American and my mother is White American. <strong>I would go to an all black Baptist church with my father one Sunday and to an all white Free Methodist church with my mother the next.<\/strong> There were so many differences between the two churches, but two things remained the same: we read the same scriptures and worshiped the same Lord and Savior.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived at Seattle Pacific University (SPU) in the fall of 2004, I did not realize that I would be the one black kid in all of my classes. I did not realize that racism existed among Jesus believers, despite being aware of the racial divide in the Church. I did not realize that I was angry with white people, and in particular, angry with white Christians. I also did not know that 5 years after graduating that I would be so thankful for every minute I spent at SPU&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christenacleveland.com\/2013\/08\/radical-racial-reconciliation-at-seattle-pacific-university\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Black at Seattle Pacific University: 3 Things I Learned Christena Cleveland: social psychology + faith + reconciliation 2013-08-30 Nikkita Oliver NOTE: This is the fourth part in our 8-part Black to School series which highlights African-American voices and experiences at Christian colleges. Please read Part 1 for context. Today\u2019s post comes from Nikkita Oliver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,8,820,20],"tags":[19896,19895,19894,19890,19893],"class_list":["post-40866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-black-to-school","tag-christena-cleveland","tag-christena-cleveland-social-psychology-faith-reconciliation","tag-nikkita-oliver","tag-seattle-pacific-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40866","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=40866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}