{"id":41505,"date":"2015-06-21T02:38:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T02:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41505"},"modified":"2015-06-21T02:38:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T02:38:35","slug":"emil-guillermo-rachel-dolezal-dylann-roof-and-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41505","title":{"rendered":"Emil Guillermo: Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof, and Father’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emil Guillermo: Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof, and Father’s Day<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund<\/a>
\n2015-06-20<\/p>\n

Emil Guillermo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Dolezal<\/a> nearly wrecked everyone’s Father’s Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You don’t often see a daughter outed so publicly by her white father for passing as an African American<\/a>, but I guess post-racial filial love isn’t necessarily unconditional.<\/p>\n

I admit to being somewhat sympathetic of Rachel D., at first. The Census, our demographic standard, is, after all, a “you are what you say you are” proposition. You can self-identify to your heart’s content. No one is going to enforce a “one drop rule<\/a>,” like they did in Virginia<\/a> for hundreds of years to keep marriage a segregated institution.<\/p>\n

But Dolezal’s “no drop” rule can also be problematic. And when her family’s outing her became like a reality show audition, leave it to the black man whom she called dad, Albert Wilkerson, to bring things back to earth. “There are bigger issues in this country to be discussing,” he told People<\/em> magazine. “[But] I’m not going to throw her under the bus.”<\/p>\n

Now that’s the kind of love you’ll only find from a real, though fake, “Dad.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emil Guillermo: Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof, and Father’s Day Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund 2015-06-20 Emil Guillermo Rachel Dolezal nearly wrecked everyone’s Father’s Day. You don’t often see a daughter outed so publicly by her white father for passing as an African American, but I guess post-racial filial love isn’t necessarily unconditional. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,1467,8,6462,20],"tags":[20287,20286,8757,20284,20283,20285,20257,20241,1449],"class_list":["post-41505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-law","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-aaldef","tag-asian-american-legal-defense-and-education-fund","tag-charleston","tag-dylann-roof","tag-dylann-storm-roof","tag-emil-guillermo","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41505","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=41505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}