{"id":43067,"date":"2015-10-05T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43067"},"modified":"2015-10-05T01:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T01:00:57","slug":"i-said-something-and-she-said-oh-no-not-you-you-are-not-black-you-are-great-it-was-real-that-fucking-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43067","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;I said something and she said: \u2018Oh no, not you. You are not black. You are great.\u2019 It was real. That fucking happened."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI remember a mom of a friend of mine in the suburbs made some comment about a black person and \u2013 I had to be 12, about 60 pounds \u2013 and I said something and she said: \u2018Oh no, not you. You are not black. You are great.\u2019 It was real. That fucking happened. And she meant it. And she meant it sincerely and sweetly. She was paying me a compliment.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesse_Williams_(actor)\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Williams<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kasperka\" target=\"_blank\">Jana Kasperkevic<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43049\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Williams: \u2018Celebrity culture? I am not going to participate in that\u2019<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, October 1, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2015\/oct\/01\/jesse-williams-greys-anatomy-celebrity-culture-civil-rights\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2015\/oct\/01\/jesse-williams-greys-anatomy-celebrity-culture-civil-rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI remember a mom of a friend of mine in the suburbs made some comment about a black person and \u2013 I had to be 12, about 60 pounds \u2013 and I said something and she said: \u2018Oh no, not you. You are not black. You are great.\u2019 It was real. That fucking happened. And [&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":[21260,18889,2103],"class_list":["post-43067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-jana-kasperkevic","tag-jesse-williams","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067","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=43067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43068,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067\/revisions\/43068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}