{"id":42372,"date":"2015-08-24T02:21:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T02:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42372"},"modified":"2015-08-24T02:21:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T02:21:28","slug":"i-went-to-black-skate-parties-black-block-partiesfestivals-and-did-so-not-as-a-white-intruder-but-as-a-karl-kani-wearing-widely-welcomed-light-skinned-black-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42372","title":{"rendered":"I went to black skate parties, black block parties\/festivals, and did so not as a white intruder, but as a Karl Kani wearing, widely welcomed, light-skinned black kid."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Outside of my mother\u2019s home, as a kid I lived a deeply black experience. Black families invited me to attend vacation Bible school. I attended black family reunions where old people would come up and pinch my cheeks and tell me who I looked like in their family. I went to black skate parties, black block parties\/festivals, and did so not as a white intruder, but as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Kani\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Kani<\/a> wearing, widely welcomed, light-skinned black kid. I soaked up every moment I had as I was fully, unabashedly loved, even doted upon, by black families throughout central <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky<\/a>. It was a refuge for me and also a rite of passage of sorts. In high school I joined exclusively black achievers groups. With scholars I love and respect to this day at the University of Kentucky, I attended and helped plan King Day events, and just lived my life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaunKing\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun King<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42337\" target=\"_blank\">Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story<\/a>,\u201d <em>Daily Kos<\/em>, August 20, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/08\/20\/1413881\/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/08\/20\/1413881\/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of my mother\u2019s home, as a kid I lived a deeply black experience. Black families invited me to attend vacation Bible school. I attended black family reunions where old people would come up and pinch my cheeks and tell me who I looked like in their family. I went to black skate parties, black [&hellip;]<\/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":[18522,20782],"class_list":["post-42372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-daily-kos","tag-shaun-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42372","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=42372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42373,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42372\/revisions\/42373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}