{"id":42818,"date":"2015-09-21T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42818"},"modified":"2015-09-21T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T02:07:11","slug":"remnants-of-slavery-column-shows-racial-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42818","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Remnants of Slavery&#8217; column shows racial ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/letters\/2015\/09\/20\/Remnants-of-Slavery-column-shows-racial-ignorance\/stories\/201509200172\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Remnants of Slavery&#8217; column shows racial ignorance<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Keller<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>O\u2019Hara Township, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m greatly troubled by Jack Kelly\u2019s historically flawed column \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/jack-kelly\/2015\/09\/13\/Jack-Kelly-Remnants-of-slavery\/stories\/201509130074\" target=\"_blank\">Remnants of Slavery<\/a>\u201d (Sept. 13) because it falsely enables an often unhearing percentage of the white majority to tell people of color that our modern-day experiences with racism are an illusion.<\/p>\n<p>As a biracial woman who was adopted into a white family and has been raised in white-dominant environments, I have a unique perspective on both racism and white privilege: two things that undeniably exist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire letter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/letters\/2015\/09\/20\/Remnants-of-Slavery-column-shows-racial-ignorance\/stories\/201509200172\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Remnants of Slavery&#8217; column shows racial ignorance Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2015-09-20 Rebecca Keller O\u2019Hara Township, Pennsylvania I\u2019m greatly troubled by Jack Kelly\u2019s historically flawed column \u201cRemnants of Slavery\u201d (Sept. 13) because it falsely enables an often unhearing percentage of the white majority to tell people of color that our modern-day experiences with racism are an illusion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6940,20],"tags":[21142,9457,21143],"class_list":["post-42818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-jack-kelly","tag-pittsburgh-post-gazette","tag-rebecca-keller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818","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=42818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42819,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818\/revisions\/42819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}