{"id":41541,"date":"2015-06-23T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41541"},"modified":"2017-03-30T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:57:28","slug":"but-i-do-think-that-there-is-a-tradition-of-a-loving-welcoming-inclusive-blackness-that-is-important-as-a-rejection-and-a-counter-to-the-historical-function-of-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41541","title":{"rendered":"But I do think that there is a tradition of a loving welcoming inclusive blackness that is important as a rejection and a counter to the historical function of whiteness."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMy father is black. My mother is white. I self-identify as black and as mixed and I don\u2019t relate\u00a0to those as mutually exclusive. I also try to be mindful and try to have a certain humility about\u00a0how my experience differs from most other black people; about how I have certain types of residual\u00a0white privilege which I don\u2019t believe makes me less black. I also know that it is ultimately not up to me\u00a0whether I am accepted as black. My experience though, has almost always been of black people welcoming\u00a0me and accepting me as their own. And it\u2019s only because of that lifetime of experience that I would feel\u00a0comfortable telling <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nancy_Giles\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Giles<\/a>,\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40510\" target=\"_blank\">actually I\u2019m black<\/a>.\u201d And I knew that even within that moment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40510\" target=\"_blank\">I could\u00a0tell her that<\/a> and she would get it. And I\u2019m not saying that there is never any exclusion\u00a0within the black community. I\u2019m not negating people who have experienced that. But I do think that there is\u00a0a tradition of a loving welcoming inclusive blackness that is important as a rejection and a counter to the\u00a0historical function of whiteness. It\u2019s a tradition I\u2019ve experienced as a beautiful thing and as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSerwer\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Serwer<\/a> said, it\u2019s a beautiful thing that <a href=\"http:\/\/spokanenaacp.com\/rachel-dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> has \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41536\" target=\"_blank\">taken advantage of<\/a>,\u201d that she has manipulated, that she has poisoned just a little bit with what she\u2019s done here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raceforward.org\/about\/staff\/jay-smooth\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Smooth<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41496\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cEmpathy does not preclude accountability:\u201d Jay Smooth on Rachel Dolezal<\/a>,\u201d <em>Fusion<\/em>, June 18, 2015 (00:01:53-00:03:11). <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/video\/153151\/empathy-does-not-preclude-accountability-jay-smooth-on-rachel-dolezal\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/fusion.net\/video\/153151\/empathy-does-not-preclude-accountability-jay-smooth-on-rachel-dolezal\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father is black. My mother is white. I self-identify as black and as mixed and I don\u2019t relate\u00a0to those as mutually exclusive. I also try to be mindful and try to have a certain humility about\u00a0how my experience differs from most other black people; about how I have certain types of residual\u00a0white privilege which I don\u2019t believe makes me less black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19052,15879,20257,20241],"class_list":["post-41541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-fusion","tag-jay-smooth","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41541","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=41541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53107,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41541\/revisions\/53107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}