{"id":44151,"date":"2015-11-23T18:41:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44151"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:36:46","slug":"editorial-biracial-in-the-time-of-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44151","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Biracial in the Time of Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/editorial-biracial-time-black-lives-matter-n466801\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial: Biracial in the Time of Black Lives Matter<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-22<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Amity_Paye\" target=\"_blank\">Amity Paye<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never forget the first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> protest I attended in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>. After years of rallying against police violence in New York, this was the first night where race was the central message. As a Black woman it spoke to the deeply personal feelings I already had about police killings.<\/p>\n<p>With each victim killed by the police without recourse, I feared for my life, for my family members, my friends and my future children. But I am also biracial. A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peace_Corps\" target=\"_blank\">Peace Corps<\/a> baby, my white mother met and later married my Black father while teaching in in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberia\" target=\"_blank\">Liberia<\/a>. When I go home to visit family almost every face at the table, most of my closest loved ones are white.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, Black people are combating institutionalized racism and demanding justice. But what happens when the very people doing this work are biracial: biologically connected to our current Black movement and also the white power systems we are searching to change?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/editorial-biracial-time-black-lives-matter-n466801\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial: Biracial in the Time of Black Lives Matter NBC News 2015-11-22 Amity Paye I&#8217;ll never forget the first Black Lives Matter protest I attended in New York. After years of rallying against police violence in New York, this was the first night where race was the central message. As a Black woman it spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,23674,20],"tags":[21982,15127],"class_list":["post-44151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-amity-paye","tag-nbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44151","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=44151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44152,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44151\/revisions\/44152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}