{"id":42382,"date":"2015-08-24T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42382"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:37:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:37:01","slug":"white-on-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42382","title":{"rendered":"White on Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

White on Paper<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Those People<\/a>
\n2015-08-20<\/p>\n

John Metta<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMy sister opening presents while I try to steal the show. Just ordinary Black children having a birthday party, unconscionably ignoring dominant stereotypes.<\/small><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In June, Rachel Dolezal<\/a>, an activist and former president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane<\/a>, was outed<\/a> by her parents as being a white woman. She later left the organization. And just yesterday, Shaun King<\/a>, an activist affiliated with the Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement, was \u201couted\u201d by Vicki Pate as being white on Re-NewsIt!<\/a>, her blog.<\/p>\n

Now, let me be clear: This essay is not about Rachel Dolezal pretending to be Black, nor is it about whether Shaun King is<\/em> Black<\/a>. This essay is about being Black<\/em>, in a white world, under a white media lens.<\/p>\n

So there are questions about Shaun King\u2019s race based on a police report<\/a> that lists him as white. This has little to do with his race<\/em>, and everything to do with institutionalized racism. It\u2019s most likely that an officer was filling out a form, and decided he was white because it wasn’t worth it to actually ask the question.<\/p>\n

I know that can happen because it has happened to me many times<\/em>…<\/p>\n

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

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