{"id":43968,"date":"2015-11-16T02:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43968"},"modified":"2015-11-16T02:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:25:50","slug":"43968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43968","title":{"rendered":"Taye Diggs wants son to embrace being mixed, not choose black or white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2015\/11\/13\/taye-diggs-mixed-me-biracial-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taye Diggs wants son to embrace being mixed, not choose black or white<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2015\/11\/13\/taye-diggs-mixed-me-biracial-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Grio<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WitherspoonC\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Witherspoon<\/a><\/strong>, Entertainment Editor<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taye_Diggs\" target=\"_blank\">Taye Diggs<\/a> released his second children\u2019s book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250047199\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Me<\/a><\/em>, inspired by his biracial 6-year-old son, Walker. His mother is actress and singer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idina_Menzel\" target=\"_blank\">Indina Menzel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a society in which it is sometimes hard to talk about race, Diggs decided to tackle the subject head-on through the eyes of the book\u2019s fictional character, Mike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first book I wrote, <em>Chocolate Me<\/em>, was based on my experiences growing up a little chocolate boy in a predominately white neighborhood, and how I would get made fun of, and how through my mother and father and my own recognition, I was able to develop the power of self love,\u201d Diggs says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2015\/11\/13\/taye-diggs-mixed-me-biracial-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taye Diggs wants son to embrace being mixed, not choose black or white The Grio 2015-11-13 Chris Witherspoon, Entertainment Editor Last month, Taye Diggs released his second children\u2019s book, Mixed Me, inspired by his biracial 6-year-old son, Walker. His mother is actress and singer Indina Menzel. In a society in which it is sometimes hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[21894,21896,21895,3999],"class_list":["post-43968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chris-witherspoon","tag-shane-w-evans","tag-taye-diggs","tag-the-grio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43968","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=43968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43971,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43968\/revisions\/43971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}